biography
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Faye, Hervé Auguste Etienne
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1814–1902)
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in Benoît-du-Sault, C France. He became professor of astronomy at the Ecole Polytechnique in 1873, and director of the Paris Observatory in 1878. In 1843 he discovered Faye's comet. |
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