Human Accomplishment: Henri-Alexandre Deslandres

a French astronomer, director of the Meudon and Paris Observatories, who carried out intensive studies on the behavior of the atmosphere of the Sun.

Born

24 July 1853 Paris, France

Died

15 January 1948 (aged 94) Paris, France

Nationality

French

Known for

spectroheliograph

Fields

astronomy

Alma mater

École Polytechnique

Awards

Janssen Medal (1896) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1913) Henry Draper Medal (1913) Fellow of the Royal Society

Institutions

Meudon Paris Observatories

adultbasic

France

era

1800+

Henri-Alexandre Deslandres