Charles Fehrenbach (other)
Charles Fehrenbach may refer to: *Charles Fehrenbach (astronomer) (1914–2008), French astronomer *Charles Fehrenbach (priest) Charles Fehrenbach (May 17, 1909, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – February 6, 2006 Saratoga Springs, New York) was a Redemptorist priest who was an author, translator and host of a local religious radio program in the Philadelphia area. He obtain ...

Charles Fehrenbach (astronomer)
Charles Fehrenbach (born 29 April 1914 in Strasbourg; died 9 January 2008 in Nîmes) was a French astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was director of the Observatoire de Haute Provence (OHP) until 1983. Following the Second World War, he was one of the first astronomers to pioneer the reversion method of using objective prisms to measure the Doppler shift of stars. He was awarded the Lalande Prize in 1950, the Prix Jules Janssen in 1959, and the Karl Schwarzschild Medal in 1963. The minor planet According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet. Before 2006, the IAU officially used the term ''minor ... 3433 Fehrenbach was named in his honor. References 1914 births 2008 deaths 20th-century French astronomers Members of the French Academy of Sciences Scientists from Strasbourg Recipients of the Lalande ...
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