Talk:Henri Chrétien
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[edit] Astronomer or Professor of Optics
On 20 April 2003, Ericd changed the article with comment "He was an astronomer". In my original version I wrote that he was a professor of Optics. Even the American Astronomy Association (who grants the price in his name) says he was a professor of optics: [1] and other sources to: [2] (Dagens Nyheter in Swedish), [3], [4], [5]. Are the AAS wrong? Kricke 13:53, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Well I don't know. What I know is that worked at Nice Observatory.
According to this source http://www.imcce.fr/fr/ephemerides/astronomie/Promenade/pages5/546.html he was a young talentuous astronomer while according to French Wikipedia http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Chr%C3%A9tien he was a physicist.
Its not that uncommon in Universities to earn a degree in one discipline and getting famous in another one.
There's no doubt that Chrétien bring serious contribution to Astronomy and Optics.
As I believe that even today Optics is only subdivision of Physic in French universities, I doubt he was once Professor of Optics. On the other hand he may well have been a Professor of physic teaching mainly (or only) Optics.
Well, we have to dig in his biography....
Ericd 17:47, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
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- Yes, we need some sources. :) I think he was Henri-Alexandre Deslandres assistant at the Meudon Observatory before he came to Nice, however, I thought he was at Nice Observatory to work on the telescope itself (modify it), not use it as an astronomer. However, I found references to him as an astronomer as well as physicist and optician (and also mathematician). He seems to have been a professor anyhow (test the highly scientific Google-method [6] :-)) but I don't know besides this sources, and it can have been a honorary title... Kricke 19:30, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
