Charles Fehrenbach (astronomer)

Charles Fehrenbach (born 29 April 1914 in Strasbourg; died 9 January 2008 in Nîmes) was a French astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was director of the Observatoire de Haute Provence (OHP) until 1983. Following the Second World War, he was one of the first astronomers to pioneer the reversion method of using objective prisms to measure the Doppler shift of stars.[1]

Charles Marc Max Fehrenbach
Born(1914-04-29)29 April 1914
Strasbourg, France
Died9 January 2008(2008-01-09) (aged 93)
Nîmes
Alma materUniversity Paris

He was awarded the Lalande Prize in 1950,[2] the Prix Jules Janssen in 1959, and the Karl Schwarzschild Medal in 1963. The minor planet 3433 Fehrenbach was named in his honor.[3]

References
  1. Hearnshaw, John B. (2014). The Analysis of Starlight: Two Centuries of Astronomical Spectroscopy (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 114. ISBN 9781107782914.
  2. "Prix et Subventions Attribués en 1950: Astronomie". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences. 231: 1365–1366. December 11, 1950.
  3. Schmadel, Lutz (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Volume 1. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 287. ISBN 9783540002383.
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