André Couder (27 November 1897 – 16 January 1979) was a French optician and

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From 1925, he worked in the optics laboratory of the Paris Observatory. Between 1952 and 1958 he was vice-president of the

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, Couder, is named for him. He was awarded the Valz Prize in 1936, and the Janssen Medal from the French Academy of Sciences in 1952. Couder was the President of the Société astronomique de France (SAF), the French astronomical society, from 1955-1957. List of presidents of the Société astronomique de France

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1897 births 1979 deaths 20th-century French astronomers Members of the French Academy of Sciences People from Alençon Opticians {{france-astronomer-stub