Odette Bancilhon
Odette Bancilhon (22 September 1908 – 1 January 1950)[1] was a French astronomer. She is known for her work during the 1930s and 1940s at the Algiers Observatory, where she discovered the asteroid 1333 Cevenola.[2] All of her publications are signed O. Bancilhon, a practice of her profession at that time.
She later married her colleague Alfred Schmitt in the 1940s, and was known professionally as O. Schmitt-Bancilhon.
The asteroid 1713 Bancilhon is also named after her, which was discovered on 27 September 1951 by colleague Louis Boyer.[3]
References
- ^ Traut, B.; Heck, A.; Duerbeck, H. W. (2005-01-01). Heck, AndrÉ (ed.). Strasbourg Observatory Scientific Personnel (From Foundation to About Year 2000). Astrophysics and Space Science Library. Springer Netherlands. pp. 277–292. doi:10.1007/1-4020-3644-2_18. ISBN 9781402036439.
- ^ "IAU Minor Planet Center". www.minorplanetcenter.net. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2013-11-11). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9783662066157.
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