Charles Fehrenbach

French astronomer (1914-2008) · France · On the map · Scientists · Died at 93

Charles Fehrenbach was a French astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was director of the Observatoire de Haute Provence (OHP) until 1983.

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2008Died9 January 20081977CNRS Gold medalAward1963Karl Schwarzschild MedalAward1959Prix Jules JanssenAward1950Lalande PrizeAward1914Born29 April 1914

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Awards

CNRS Gold medal1977

Karl Schwarzschild Medal1963

Prix Jules Janssen1959

Lalande Prize1950

Ladies' award of the Astronomical Society of France

Honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva

Officer of the Order of Leopold

Commander of the Order of Leopold II

Commander of the French Order of Academic Palms

Knight of the Order of Agricultural Merit

Commander of the Legion of Honour

Croix de guerre 1939-1945

About this person

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.

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France

The same award as Charles

Gabrielle Renaudot FlammarionBoth received Ladies' award of the Astronomical Society of France Andrzej UdalskiBoth received Karl Schwarzschild Medal

Thomas HenningBoth received Karl Schwarzschild Medal André CouderBoth received Ladies' award of the Astronomical Society of France

Audouin DollfusBoth received Ladies' award of the Astronomical Society of France

Lodewijk WoltjerBoth received Karl Schwarzschild Medal