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    Pierre Jules César Janssen (22 February 1824 – 23 December 1907), usually known as Jules Janssen, was a French astronomer who, along with English scientist...
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    Zacharias Janssen; also Zacharias Jansen or Sacharias Jansen; 1585 – pre-1632) was a Dutch spectacle-maker who lived most of his life in Middelburg. He...
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    Dishoeck 2021 – Jean-Pierre Luminet 2022 – Jocelyn Bell Burnell List of astronomy awards Prizes named after people "Jules Janssen Prize awarded to Ewine...
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  • and regained" (PDF). Baltic Astronomy. 20 (2): 221–230. Bibcode:2011BaltA..20..221H. doi:10.1515/astro-2017-0286. "Janssen Prize – Société astronomique...
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  • Jules Janssen (created in 1897), an annual award presented by the French Astronomical Society. Both awards are named for the French astronomer Pierre Janssen...
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    The Janssen revolver (French: revolver photographique) was invented by the French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen in 1874. It was the instrument...
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    Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, with its origins in the religious, mythological, cosmological, calendrical...
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    the development of quantum mechanics in the 20th century. In 1868, Pierre Janssen's solar observations had led him to report to the Académie des Sciences...
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    genealogist. Pierre Callendreau was his grandfather. Callandreau went to the École Polytechnique in 1874. He became interested in astronomy and worked as...
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  • Carrington discovers the differential nature of solar rotation 1868 — Pierre Janssen and Norman Lockyer discover an unidentified yellow line in solar prominence...
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    an English scientist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen, he is credited with discovering the gas helium. Lockyer also is remembered...
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  • Maurice Hamy Michel Hénon Paul Henry and Prosper Henry Pierre Hérigone Gustave-Adolphe Hirn Pierre Janssen Odette Jasse René Jarry-Desloges Stéphane Javelle...
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    in the field of astronomy in France and abroad. Not all awards are given every year, and some have been discontinued. Prix Jules Janssen. Recognition of...
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    practical and theoretical astronomy. A major focus was developing new kinds of instruments. The chief developer was Pierre Janssen, who orchestrated the construction...
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  • Bibcode:1973blho.conf.....D. Luminet, Jean-Pierre (July 31, 1979). "Image of a spherical black hole with thin accretion disk". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 75: 228. Bibcode:1979A&A...
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    History of the telescope (category History of astronomy)
    conclusion that Zacharias Janssen invented the telescope a little ahead of another spectacle maker, Hans Lippershey, was adopted by Pierre Borel in his 1656 book...
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    Solar eclipse of August 18, 1868 (category Astronomy in Thailand)
    astronomers. The eclipse allowed for the discovery of helium by both Pierre Janssen and Norman Lockyer, who observed Solar prominences with spectroscopes...
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    literature and traditions of creation myths and eschatology. In the science of astronomy, cosmology is concerned with the study of the chronology of the universe...
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    later become a member of in 1912. In 1900, Puiseux received the Prix Jules Janssen, the highest award of the Société astronomique de France (the French astronomical...
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    Michel Mayor (category Institute for Astronomy (Hawaii) people)
    astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. He formally retired in 2007, but remains active as a researcher at the...
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    Observatory after its director, Pierre Janssen, one of the cofounders of astrophysics, saw Štefánik's talent. Štefánik owed to Janssen and Camille Flammarion his...
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    identified. Two examples are listed below: In 1868 Norman Lockyer and Pierre Janssen independently observed a line next to the sodium doublet (D1 and D2)...
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    The following is a timeline of Solar System astronomy and science. It includes the advances in the knowledge of the Earth at planetary scale, as part...
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    He took part in the French expeditions of 1874, accompanied by Jules Janssen, to Japan, and in 1882, accompanied by Guillaume Bigourdan, to Martinique...
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  • List of astronomers (category History of astronomy)
    Jackson (South Africa, 1903–1988) Karan Jani (India, 1988–) Pierre Jules César Janssen (France, 1824–1907) James Jeans (United Kingdom, 1877–1946) Benjamin...
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    International de l'Heure from 1919 to 1928. In 1919, he received the Prix Jules Janssen, the highest award of the Société astronomique de France, the French astronomical...
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    Retrieved May 1, 2016. Le Gall, A.; Malaska, M. J.; Lorenz, Ralph D.; Janssen, M. A.; Tokano, T.; Hayes, Alexander G.; Mastrogiuseppe, Marco; Lunine...
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    a hydrogen line confirmed that prominences were gaseous in nature. Pierre Janssen was also able to detect an emission line corresponding to an at the...
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    during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views...
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  • Kovalevsky received in 1963 the Prix Damoiseau, in 1979 the Prix Jules Janssen, and in 1984 the Prix Alexandre Joannidès. He received in 1966 and again...
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