How to Pronounce Louis Boyer (astronomer)
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Jan 20, 1901 Paris, Île de France, France Died on 01 Jan 1999 (aged 97)
French astronomer
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About Louis Boyer Astronomer
- Louis Boyer (1901–1999) was a French astronomer who worked at the Algiers Observatory, North Africa, where he discovered 40 asteroids between 1930 and 1952.In the 1950s and 1960s.
- he worked on identifications of small Solar System bodies at Nice Observatory in southeastern France.
- The asteroid 1215 Boyer, discovered by his colleague Alfred Schmitt at Algiers in 1932, was named after him.
- In turn Boyer named the 1617 Alschmitt asteroid in honor of Schmitt.Boyer also named 1713 Bancilhon after Odette Bancilhon his colleague and wife of astronomer Alfred Schmitt.
