Henry Prosper
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Nom
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Henry Prosper
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Date de naissance
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1847
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Date de mort
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25 July 1901
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Lieu de naissance
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Nancy
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Couverture temporelle
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2/2 19th century
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Biographie
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with his brother was optician at Nancy before moving to Paris in 1864. There the brothers quickly came to the attention of Le Verrier who found posts for them at the Paris Observatory. Here they constructed high performance optical systems, discovered 14 minor planets between 1872 and 1882 and from 1882 onwards were responsible for all the technical optical programme for the photographic atlas of the heavens (La carte du ciel) making the optical components of most of the instruments used by French observers.1
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Notes biographiques
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1 Bulletin astronomique xvi 1902, 420-1.
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Identifiant
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2219
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