biography
| name: |
Lemonnier, Pierre Charles
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pronunciation:
[luhmonyay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1715–99)
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in Paris, France. Professor at the Collège Royale from 1746, he greatly advanced astronomical measurement in France, and made 12 observations of Uranus before it came to be recognized as a planet. |
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