Jean Alfred Gautier
Jean Alfred Gautier (born July 18, 1793 in Cologny , † November 30, 1881 in Geneva ) was a Swiss mathematician and astronomer .
He studied with Laplace , Lagrange and Legendre and was friends with Herschel .
He was professor of astronomy at the academy in Geneva and from 1819 to 1881 director of the observatory. He was a member of the Astronomical Society London .
At about the same time as Rudolf Wolf and Johann von Lamont , he discovered the curious correspondence between the cycle of sunspot activity and the variation in the earth's magnetic field.
His nephew, Étienne Émile Gautier , also became an astronomer.
Web links
- Marcel Golay / CN: Gautier, Alfred. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- NN: YES Gautier. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , Vol. 42 (1882), p. 150. (Obituary, English)
Individual evidence
- ^ NY Times, Dec. 27, 1881
- ^ The Observatory : 1882 p. 27, 28
- ↑ www2.hao.ucar.edu: Solar Physics Historical Timeline (1800–1999) , accessed on November 6, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gautier, Jean Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1793 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologny |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1881 |
| Place of death | Geneva |