Philippe Véron (2 March 1939 – 7 August 2014)
was a French
astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, moons, comets and galaxies – in either ...
. He worked at
Observatoire de Haute Provence, where he was director from 1985 to 1994.
He studied variability and
statistics of
quasars, as well as
elliptical galaxies
An elliptical galaxy is a type of galaxy with an approximately ellipsoidal shape and a smooth, nearly featureless image. They are one of the four main classes of galaxy described by Edwin Hubble in his Hubble sequence and 1936 work ''The Real ...
. He was married to French astronomer
Marie-Paule Véron-Cetty, and together with her compiled and maintained th
Veron-Cetty Catalog of Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei whose thirteenth edition was published in 2010.
At the time of his death, he was working on the ''Dictionnaire des Astronomes Français 1850–1950'' (Dictionary of French astronomers 1850–1950), which is a biographical encyclopedia. It is unpublished but is available online in PDF form at http://www.obs-hp.fr/dictionnaire.
is named after him.
References
External links
Recent publications form
NASA
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Astrophysics Data System
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website
20th-century French astronomers
1939 births
2014 deaths
21st-century French astronomers
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