Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier

Physicist, Deceased Person

1812 – 1872

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Who was Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier?

Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier was a French astronomer, one of two French astronomers referred to as M. Laugier.

The son of Andre Laugier, a chemist, studied astronomy under François Arago. He then obtained a post in the observatory at Paris, made important discoveries in regard to magnetism, comets, eclipses, meteors, and sunspots, and made improvements in astronomical clocks. Laugier determined the exact latitude of the Paris observatory, correcting previous errors. He published a catalogue of fifty-three nebulae, and another of the declination of 140 stars, and contributed astronomical papers to the Connaissance du Temps. He was long associated with Arago in researches on terrestrial physics, and was for some years president of the Academy of Sciences.

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Born
Dec 22, 1812
Paris
Nationality
  • France
Profession
Lived in
  • Paris
Died
Apr 5, 1872

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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