Hervé Faye
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Hervé Auguste Étienne Albans Faye (October 3, 1814 – July 4, 1902) was a French astronomer, born at Saint-Benoît-du-Sault (Indre) and educated at the Ecole Polytechnique, which he left in 1834, before completing his course, to accept a position in the Paris Observatory to which he had been appointed on the recommendation of M. Arago.
He studied comet, and discovered the periodic comet 4P/Faye on November 22, 1843. His discovery of "Faye's comet" attracted world-wide attention, and won him the...
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