Asteroids named after people called Francois
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(7865) Francoisgros
François Gros (b. 1925) is a molecular biologist and permanent secretary emeritus of the French Academy of Sciences. He is honorary professor at the College de France and at the Institut Pasteur. He is the president of COPED, the Committee of Developing Countries of the French Academy of Sciences.Discovered 21 March 1982 by H. Debehogne, La Silla
(9349) Lucas
Named in memory of François Edouard Anatole Lucas (1842-1891), French number theorist, best known for his test for Mersenne primes and the demonstration that 2127-1 is prime. His interests included magic squares and Fibonacci numbers, and while studying the latter he devised the similar sequence 2, 1, 3, 4, 7, ..., now known as Lucas numbers. The number of this minor planet is the twentieth member of this sequence. Name proposed by the discoverer following a suggestion by B. G. Marsden.Discovered 30 September 1991 by R. H. McNaught, Siding Spring
(9553) Colas
François Colas (b. 1959) is an expert on modern solar-system astrometry at the Institut de Mécanique Celeste in Paris. He has contributed to numerous research papers in observational planetary astronomy. A strong supporter of the Pic du Midi Observatory, he has many fruitful relations with the amateur community.Discovered 17 October 1985 by CERGA, Caussols
(9588) Quesnay
François Quesnay (1694-1774) was a physician who started, together with Mirabeau, the economic movement Physiocrats during the French Enlightenment. In 1756, several articles were published in the seventh volume of the Encyclopédie, and they formed the basis of his economic doctrines.Discovered 18 November 1990 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(10140) Villon
Named in memory of François Villon (1431-1463), one of the greatest French lyric poets, known for his ballads, chansons and rondeaux. Le grand Testament is his master work. Herein he reviews his life, expressing his horror of sickness, old age, death and a poignant regret for his wasted youth. Known for his criminal excesses, he spent much time in prison, until he was condemned to be hanged (Ballade des pendus). However, in 1463 his sentence was commuted to banishment from Paris.Discovered 19 September 1993 by E. W. Elst, Caussols
(12898) Mignard
François Mignard (b. 1949) is Director of CERGA (Centre d´Etudes et de Recherches en Géodynamique et Astrométrie). Expert in space astrometry and solar system dynamics, Mignard is also involved in space missions such as HIPPARCOS and GAIA. The name was suggested by E. Dotto and M. A. Barucci.Discovered 14 September 1998 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(13180) Fourcroy
Antoine-François de Fourcroy (1755-1809) was a French chemist and co-founder of the Ecole polytechnique. A pioneer in animal and plant chemistry, he collaborated with Lavoisier in reforming the system of chemical nomenclature. In 1782 he published his Leçons élémentaire d´histoire naturelle et de chemie (2 vol.).Discovered 18 April 1996 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(13560) La Perouse
In 1785 French navigator Jean-François Galoup, Comte de La Pérouse (1741-1788), sailed along the coast of South and North America and across the Pacific to China and Australia. In 1788, his ships L´Astrolabe and La Boussole vanished without a trace. The strait between Hokkaido and Sakhalin is named for him.Discovered 2 September 1992 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(14189) Sevre
François Sèvre (b. 1948) started his career as an infrared astronomy engineer at Meudon Observatory. He has participated in a large number of observing runs, most notably at the Pic du Midi Observatory, where his knowledge of the mountain and his human qualities have always been appreciated.Discovered 15 December 1998 by ODAS, Caussols
(19250) Poullain
François Poullain de la Barre (1647-1725) was a French priest, writer, and Cartesian and feminist philosopher. In 1673 he published a radical and philosophically-sophisticated defense of the equality of women and men.Discovered 12 August 1994 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(24103) Dethury
César-François Cassini (1714-1784), a.k.a. Cassini de Thury or Cassini III, succeeded his father, Jacques Cassini, in 1740 as third director of the Paris Observatory. He was also a cartographer and was instrumental in producing the first modern map of France using the triangulation method.Discovered 9 November 1999 by C. W. Juels, Fountain Hills
(31043) Sturm
Charles-François Sturm (1803-1855) was a Swiss-born French mathematician. He proved a theorem that specifies the number of real roots of an algebraic equation that lie between two values of the variable. He also studied differential equations whose solutions form complete orthogonal sequences.Discovered 11 June 1996 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
(31823) Viete
François Viète (1540-1603) was a French lawyer and mathematician who introduced the modern algebraic notation, using letters to represent numbers. He also developed a systematic method for solving plane and spherical triangles.Discovered 4 October 1999 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
(120375) Kugel
François Kugel (b. 1959) is a very active comet observer. He founded the Observatoire Chante-Perdrix, at Dauban, Banon, in 2005 to continue his observations and accommodate the instruments of other astronomers.Discovered 10 August 2005 by C. Rinner, Ottmarsheim
(210997) Guenat
François Guenat (b. 1937) was the first curator of the Jura natural science museum in Porrentruy from 1983 to 1999.Discovered 14 December 2001 by M. Ory, Vicques
(225991) Francoisforget
François Forget (b. 1967) is a French scientist and member of the NASA New Horizons plasma and atmospheres science team. Following the flyby of Pluto, his global circulation models provided important insights to the time-evolution of Pluto's volatiles.Discovered 7 February 2002 by M. W. Buie, Kitt Peak
(260724) Malherbe
François de Malherbe (1555–1628) was a French poet and a great defender of the purity of French language.Discovered 30 May 2005 by Saint-Sulpice, Saint-Sulpice
(295473) Cochard
François Cochard (b. 1965) is a French engineer, who has promoted spectroscopy by amateur astronomers. He created the BeSS spectrum database to get a better understanding of Be stars.Discovered 27 August 2008 by Lopez, J. M., Cavadore, C., Pises
(667294) Missen
François Missen (b. 1933) is a French journalist, reporter and author. A former war correspondent in Vietnam, Algeria and Afghanistan, he explores hidden areas and has worked on many big investigations, including the French Connection. Missen was awarded the Albert Londres Prize in 1974.Discovered 28 March 2011 by M. Ory, Nogales