Aymar de la Baume Pluvinel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French astronomer
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Place of Birth: 8th arrondissement of Paris, ÃŽle-de-France, France
About Aymar de la Baume Pluvinel
- Count Aymar Eugène de la Baume Pluvinel (6 November 1860 – 18 July 1938) was a French astronomer and professor in the Grandes écoles SupOptique (École supérieure d'optique).
- He belonged to an old noble family, whose most famous descendant was Antoine de Pluvinel, King Louis XIII's master of equitation. He was a pioneer of astrophotography on the French expedition to Haiti to observe the transit of Venus in 1882 and on several French expeditions to observer solar eclipses.He was a member of the Société Astronomique de France from 1889 and its president from 1913 to 1919.
- He was awarded the Valz Prize in 1909 by the French Academy of Sciences.
- In 1923, he received the Prix Jules Janssen, the highest award of the Société astronomique de France, the French astronomical society.
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| Work period | between 1909 and 1937 | ||
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