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Henri-Alexandre Deslandres

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In 1898, he joined Janssen at Meudon, increasing the scientific staff by 100%. On Janssen's death in 1907, Deslandres became director and embarked on a programme of expansion. Deslandres was the President of the
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In his bearing, his character and his style of life Deslandres always remained more akin to the soldier (and the officer) than to the scholar.
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He remained active in research right up until his death. Fellow astronomer Raymond Michard observed that
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who set to work to bring astrophysics into the mainstream by hiring Deslandres. Deslandres developed the
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and the French government awarded Janssen a grant to establish an astrophysical observatory at
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Deslandres at the Fourth Conference International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research at
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so, on graduation in 1874, he responded to the continuing military tension with the emerging
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in 1914, though already in his 60s, he returned to active service in the engineers as a
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It is no longer geometry and mechanics which dominate but physics and chemistry.
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with Janssen as the sole astronomer. In 1889, Le Verrier was succeeded by
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Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925)
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Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
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by embarking on a military career. Rising to the rank of
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in the engineers, he became increasingly interested in
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Such advice was sternly rejected by director of the
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Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala
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Deslandres

Paris
French
École Polytechnique
spectroheliograph
Janssen Medal
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
Henry Draper Medal
Fellow of the Royal Society
astronomy
Meudon
Paris Observatories
astronomer
Meudon
Paris Observatories
Sun
École Polytechnique
Franco-Prussian War
Paris Commune
Germany
captain
physics
Alfred Cornu
spectroscopy
Sorbonne
deslandres table
spectral lines
Johann Balmer
quantum mechanics

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