Awards & Winners

Pierre Janssen

Date of Birth 22-February-1824
Place of Birth Paris
(ÃŽle-de-France, France, Seine)
Nationality France
Also know as Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen
Profession Astronomer
Pierre Jules César Janssen, also known as Jules Janssen, was a French astronomer who, along with the English scientist Joseph Norman Lockyer, is credited with discovering the gaseous nature of the solar chromosphere, and with some justification the element helium.

Awards by Pierre Janssen

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1876


Rumford Medal
(For his numerous & important researches in the radiation & absorption of light, carried on chiefly by means of the spectroscope.)