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Count Aymar Eugène de la Baume Pluvinel (6 November 1860 – 18 July 1938) was a French astronomer and professor in the ''
LA BAUME PLUVINEL Aymar de, Eugène Aymar
1860 births 1938 deaths 19th-century French astronomers Members of the French Academy of Sciences 20th-century French astronomers {{france-astronomer-stub
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''). He belonged to an old noble family, whose most famous descendant was Antoine de Pluvinel
Antoine de Pluvinel (1552, Crest, Dauphiné - 24 August 1620) was the first of the French riding masters, and has had great influence on modern dressage. He wrote ''L’Instruction du Roy en l’exercice de monter à cheval'' ("instruction of t ...
, King Louis XIII
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's master of equitation
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.
He was a pioneer of astrophotography on the French expedition to Haiti to observe the transit of Venus in 1882 and on several French expeditions to observer solar eclipses.
He was a member of the Société Astronomique de France
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from 1889 and its president from 1913 to 1919. He was awarded the Valz Prize
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History
The Valz Prize was established in June 1874 when the widow of astronomer Benjamin Valz, Marie Madeleine J ...
in 1909 by the French Academy of Sciences
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. In 1923, he received the Prix Jules Janssen
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This annual prize is given to a professional French astronomer or to an astronomer of another nationality in recognition ...
, the highest award of the Société astronomique de France
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, the French astronomical society.
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LA BAUME PLUVINEL Aymar de, Eugène Aymar
1860 births 1938 deaths 19th-century French astronomers Members of the French Academy of Sciences 20th-century French astronomers {{france-astronomer-stub