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Place of Birth: Saint-Benoît-du-Sault, Centre-Val de Loire, France
About Hervé Faye
- Hervé Auguste Étienne Albans Faye ((1814-10-01)1 October 1814 – (1902-07-04)4 July 1902) was a French astronomer, born at Saint-Benoît-du-Sault (Indre) and educated at the École Polytechnique, which he left in 1834, before completing his course, to accept a position in the Paris Observatory to which he had been appointed on the recommendation of M.
- Arago.
- It was during his time at the École Polytechnique that he developed his interest in astronomy.He studied comets, and discovered the periodic comet 4P/Faye on 22 November 1843.
- His discovery of "Faye's Comet" attracted worldwide attention, and won him the 1844 Lalande Prize and a membership in the French Academy of Sciences.
- In 1848 he became an instructor in geodesy at the Polytechnique, and in 1854 rector of the academy at Nancy and professor of astronomy in the faculty of science there.
- Other promotions followed in succeeding decades.
- He became Minister of Public Instruction in the Rochebouet cabinet in 1877, a position which he held only briefly. Faye served as the President of the Société Astronomique de France (SAF), the French astronomical society, from 1889-1891.His work covered the entire field of astronomical investigation.
- It comprised the determination of comet periods, the measurement of parallaxes, and the study of stellar and planetary movements.
- He also studied the physics of the sun.
- He advanced several original theories on the nature and form of comets, meteors, the aurora borealis, and the sun.
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