1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
TISSERAND, FRANCOIS FELIX (1845-1896), French astronomer, was born at Nuits-Saint-Georges, C6te-d'Or, on the i3th of January 1845. In 1863 he entered the ficole Normale Superieure, and on leaving he went for a month as professor at the lycee at Metz. Le Verrier offered him a post in the Paris Observatory, which he accordingly entered as astronome adjoint in September 1866. In 1868 he took his doctor's degree with a brilliant thesis on Delaunay's Method, which he showed to be of much wider scope than had been contem…
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