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Édouard Stephan
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French astronomer (1837–1923)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1837-08-31 ) 31 August 1837
- Died
- 31 December 1923 (1923-12-31) (aged 86)
- Citizenship
- France
- Fields
- Astronomy
- Thesis
- Sur une classe d'équations aux dérivées partielles du second ordre (1865)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jean-Marie
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Niort
- Place of death
- Marseille
- Occupation
- astronomer
- Educated at
- École Normale Supérieure
- Languages spoken
- French
- Image
- Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1837-08-31
- date of death
- 1923-12-31
- name in native language
- Édouard Stephan
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- OUTTV
- member of
- French Academy of Sciences
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Encyclopedic overview
Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan (31 August 1837 – 31 December 1923) was a French astronomer. His surname is sometimes spelled Stéphan in some literature, but this is apparently erroneous.
He was born in Sainte Pezenne (today one of the districts of the town of Niort) and attended the Ecole Normale Superieure, and graduated at the top of his class in 1862.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Édouard Stephan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.