Jean-Félix Adolphe Gambart

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Jean-Félix Adolphe Gambart (born May 12, 1800 in Sète , † July 23, 1836 in Paris ) was a French astronomer .

Gambart was born the son of a captain. At a young age, his intelligence was recognized by Alexis Bouvard , who convinced him to devote himself to astronomy . In 1819 he went to the Marseille Observatory and became its director in 1822.

During his career, he noted a number of observations of Jupiter's moons and discovered a total of 13  comets . In 1832 he observed the passage of Mercury in front of the Sun and noticed that the planet appeared deformed when it reached the Sun's edge.

In 1831 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.

He suffered from tuberculosis and died of cholera in 1836 .

Honors

The Gambart crater on the moon was named after him. He also received a medal from the Royal Astronomical Society for calculating the orbit of a comet.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter G. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 17, 2019 (French).