This page brings together biographies on significant figures in the history of the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA) classified in alphabetical order :
Baillaud, René ; Bassot, Léon ; Bischoffsheim, Raphaël ; Charlois, Auguste ; Chrétien, Henri ; Colin, Jacques ; Colomas, Pierre ; Couteau, Paul ; Delache, Philippe ; Eiffel, Gustave ; Fabre, Hervé ; Fayet Gaston ; Garnier, Charles ; Gautier, Paul ; Giacobini, Michel ; Henry (frères) ; Jabely, Charles ; Javelle, Stéphane ; Kovalevsky, Jean ; Loewy, Maurice ; Marshal, Jacques ; Michard, Raymond ; Patry, André ; Pecker, Jean-Claude ; Perrotin, Henri ; Prim, Maurice ; Reiss, Guy ; Schatzman, Evry ; Schaumasse, Alexandre ; Simonin, Martial ; Thollon, Louis ; Trellis, Michel ; Zahn, Jean-Paul
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BAILLAUD, René (1885-1977,astronomer at the Nice observatory from 1910 to 1924) |
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BASSOT, Jean-Antonin Léon (1841-1917, general of the army, geographer and astronomer, director of the Nice Observatory from 1904 to 1917 ) |
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BISCHOFFSHEIM, Raphaël (1823-1906, founder of the Nice Observatory) |
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CHARLOIS, Auguste (1864-1910, astronomer at the Nice observatory from 1881 to 1910) |
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CHRETIEN, Henri (1879-1956, astronomer, optical engineer, inventor, called in 1906 to create an Astrophysics department at the Nice observatory (1) ) |
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COLIN, Jacques (19..-..... , director of the Côte d'Azur Observatory from 1999 to 2009 ) | ||||||
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COLOMAS, Pierre (1868-1920, aide astronome à l'ob. de Nice de 1885 à 1920) |
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COUTEAU, Paul (1923-2014,astronomer at the Nice observatory, now OCA, specialist of double stars ) |
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DELACHE, Philippe (1937-1994, director of the Nice Observatory from 1969 to 1972 and 1975; director of the OCA from 1989 to 1994; president of ADION from 1971-1977) | ||||||
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EIFFEL, Gustave (1832-1923, engineer and builder - building built by the Eiffel workshops : dôme de la Grande coupole de l'Observatoire de Nice) |
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FABRE, Hervé (1905-1995 ; astronomer at the Nice obs. from 1932 to 1972 ; assistant director of the Nice observatory from 1952 to 1968 or 1954-1969 ?) ) |
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FAYET, Gaston (1874-1967, assistant director of the Nice observatory from March 1914 to March 1917 ; director of the Nice observatory from 1917 to 1962) |
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Notice sur les travaux scientifiques de M. Gaston Fayet |
Notice sur les travaux scientifiques de M. Gaston Fayet FAYET, Gaston (1930) Call number A000706 (Bib. Nice Mont Gros) Access condition : restricted access to OCA staff |
Notice sur les travaux scientifiques de M. Gaston Fayet FAYET, Gaston (1934) Call number A000839 (Bib. Nice Mont Gros) Access condition : restricted access to OCA staff |
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GARNIER, Charles (1825-1898) |
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GAUTIER, Paul (1842-1909, French scientific instrument maker who developed the equatorial Coude telescope of Nice obs.) |
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GIACOBINI, Michel (1873-1938, astronomer at the Nice observatory from 1888 until 1910?) |
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HENON, Michel (1931-2013, astronomer and mathematician, joined the Nice observatory in 1968 - Works on stellar dynamics ; the evolution of Saturn's rings |
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HENRY (frères) : HENRY, Paul (1848-1905) et HENRY, Prosper (1849-1903) (opticians who worked on the lenses of the large telescope of the Nice observatory ) |
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JABELY, Charles (1861-1899, aide-astronome à l'observatoire de Nice en 1887, puis astronome adjoint en 1890) |
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JAVELLE, Stéphane (1864-1917, astronomer at the Nice observatory from 1884 to 1917) |
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KOVALEVSKY, Jean (1929-2018, Emeritus astronomer at the Côte d'Azur Observatory, 1st director of CERGA from 1974 to 1982, member of the Academy of Sciences | ||||||
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LOEWY, Maurice (1833-1907, astronome , dès 1879, participation à 2 commissions du Bureau des longitudes pour choisir l'emplacement du nouvel obs. de Nice et les instruments) |
-------- (1) "Dès 1879 une commission composée de trois membres du Bureau des Lonngitudes (Faye , son président , d ' Abbadie et Loewy) s ' occupait des instruments et la même année Bischoffsheim commandait à divers constructeurs un cercle méridien portatif, un grand cercle méridien , un grand et un petit équatorial . Une autre commission comprenant le colonel Perrier , d ' Abbadie et Loewy était chargée de f i xe r l ' emplacement d' un nouvel observatoire" (source : 1881-1981, cent ans d'astronomie à l'Observatoire de Nice / Clorennec, Alain ; Feldman, Renata, ; Zahn, Jean-Paul . - Nice : Atelier d'impression (L'), 1981, p.4 - cote W20 / OCA-NI-005000) |
MARSHAL, Jacques (1940-1996,engineer at the Nice Observatory from 1967 to 1996, secretary general of ADION from 1988 to 1991 ) |
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MICHARD, Raymond (1925-2015, astronome, dir. de l'obs. de Nice de 1981 à 1986 puis administrateur provisoire de l'Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur jusqu'en mars 1989) |
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PATRY, André (1902-1960, calculateur à l'obs. de Nice à partir de 1919) |
PATRY, André (1902-1960) in Dictionnaire des Astronomes Français 1850-1950 / Philippe Véron , accessible en ligne à l'adresse : http://www.obs-hp.fr/dictionnaire/par_lettre/lettres_OP.pdf , p. 7 du pdf (consulté le 12/03/2024) |
PECKER, Jean-Claude (1923-2020 , director of the Nice Observatory from 1962 to 1969) | ||||||
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PERROTIN, Henri Joseph Anastase (1845-1904, 1st director of the Nice Observatory from 1881 until 1904) |
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PRIM, Maurice (1863-1937, astronomer at the Nice observatory from 1891 to 1917?) |
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REISS, Guy (1904-1964 , astronomer at the Nice observatory from 1962 to 1964?) |
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SCHATZMAN, Evry (1920-2010, research director at the CNRS in 1976, at the Nice Obs. then, from 1988, at the Paris Observatory ; general secretary of ADION 1964-1970 ) |
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SCHAUMASSE, Alexandre (1882-1958, astronomer at the Nice observatory from 1910 to 1943) |
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SIMONIN, Martial (1863-19??, joined the Nice Observatory in 1887, deputy director of the Nice Observatory in 1904 ) |
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THOLLON, Louis (1829-1887, astronome qui va créer un service de spectroscopie à l'obs. de Nice en 1879) |
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TRELLIS, Michel (1925-... , astronome à l'obs. de Nice à partir de 1964 - study of solar corona) |
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ZAHN, Jean-Paul (1935-2015, astronomer, joined the Nice Observatory in 1966, director of the Nice Observatory from 1972 to 1981 then director of the Pic du Midi and Toulouse Observatory from 1981 to 1988, before joining the observatory from Paris in 1993) | ||||||
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