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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.

Aymar Eugène de la Baume Pluvinel
Pluvinel in 1921
Born6 November 1860
Died18 July 1938
NationalityFrench
AwardsValz Prize
Prix Jules Janssen
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy

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.[1]

He was a member of the Société Astronomique de France from 1889 and its president from 1913 to 1919.[2] He was awarded the Valz Prize in 1909 by the French Academy of Sciences.[3] In 1923, he received the Prix Jules Janssen, the highest award of the Société astronomique de France, the French astronomical society.

Pluvinel at the Fourth Conference International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research at Mount Wilson Observatory, 1910
Pluvinel at the Fourth Conference International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research at Mount Wilson Observatory, 1910

References


  1. "AYMAR DE LA BAUME PLUVINEL". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 99: 298–299. 1939. Bibcode:1939MNRAS..99Q.298.. doi:10.1093/mnras/99.4.298a.
  2. Cox, J.-F. (1939). "A. de la BAUME PLUVINEL (1860–1938)". Ciel et Terre. 55: 66–69. Bibcode:1939C&T....55...66C.
  3. "Prix Décernés par l'Académie des Sciences pour 1909". La Nature. July 24, 1909. p. 57.



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Aymar Eugène de La Baume Pluvinel (* 6. November 1860 in Marcoussis; † 18. Juli 1938 in Vic-sur-Cère) war ein französischer Astronom, Professor an der École supérieure d'optique und Mitglied der Académie des sciences (seit dem 28. November 1932).
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