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Authorised form of nameDelaunay; Charles Eugene (1816 - 1872)
Dates1816 - 1872
NationalityFrench
Place of birthLusigny, France
Date of birth09 April 1816
Place of deathAt sea, off the coast of Cherbourg, France
Date of death05 August 1872
Research fieldCelestial mechanics
ActivityEducation:
Secondary school, Troyes; Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (1836)
Career:
Teacher of Geodesy, Ecole des Mines; Professor, Ecole Polytechnique; Engineer in chief, Corps des Mines; Director, Paris Observatory; drowned when the pleasure boat he was on capsized
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election29/04/1869
RelationshipsSon of Jaques Hubert Delauney, surveyor, and his wife Catherine
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Authority:
Birth and death dates from DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1875-1876 vol 24 pp vii-ix
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/27183855
CodeNA6534
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1869/02Delaunay, Charles Eugene: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/9/330Letter from Ch [Charles] Delaunay, Paris Observatory, Paris, to the Royal Society17 February 1872
MC/8/357Letter from [Charles Eugène] Delaunay, Paris, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society]4 May 1869
MC/9/262Letter from Ch [Charles] Delaunay, Director of the Paris Observatory, Paris, to the Royal Society11 October 1871
MC/9Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1870-June 1873
MC/8Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1867-1869
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