Charles Messier
1730 CE–1817 CE · Badonviller
Charles Messier (French: [ʃaʁl me.sje]; 26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817) was a French astronomer. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of 110 nebulae and star clusters, which came to be known as the Messier objects, referred to with the letter M and their number between 1 and 110. Messier's purpose for the catalogue was to help astronomical observers distinguish between permanent and transient visually diffuse objects in the sky.
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- Benjamin Franklin· 1706 CE–1790 CE
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon· 1707 CE–1788 CE
- Leonhard Euler· 1707 CE–1783 CE
- Roger Joseph Boscovich· 1711 CE–1787 CE
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert· 1717 CE–1783 CE
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi· 1718 CE–1799 CE
- Joseph Black· 1728 CE–1799 CE
- Henry Cavendish· 1731 CE–1810 CE
- Nevil Maskelyne· 1732 CE–1811 CE
- Jérôme Lalande· 1732 CE–1807 CE
- Joseph Priestley· 1733 CE–1804 CE
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange· 1736 CE–1813 CE
- William Herschel· 1738 CE–1822 CE
- Carl Wilhelm Scheele· 1742 CE–1786 CE
- Antoine Lavoisier· 1743 CE–1794 CE
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck· 1744 CE–1829 CE
- Alessandro Volta· 1745 CE–1827 CE
- Edward Jenner· 1749 CE–1823 CE
- Pierre-Simon Laplace· 1749 CE–1827 CE
- Caroline Herschel· 1750 CE–1848 CE
- Joseph Fourier· 1768 CE–1830 CE
- Georges Cuvier· 1769 CE–1832 CE
- Thomas Young· 1773 CE–1829 CE
- Humphry Davy· 1778 CE–1829 CE
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- George III· 1738 CE–1820 CE
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- Joseph II· 1741 CE–1790 CE
- Bodawpaya· 1745 CE–1819 CE
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