Daniel Barbier
{{Short description|French astronomer (1907–1965)}}
Daniel Barbier (10 December 1907 – 1 April 1965) was a French astronomer born in Lyon.{{cite book |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers |last=Hockey |first=Thomas |year=2009 |publisher=Springer Publishing |isbn=978-0-387-31022-0 |accessdate=August 22, 2012 |url=http://www.springerreference.com/docs/html/chapterdbid/58115.html}}
Between 1930 and 1965 he published nearly 100 scientific papers on astronomy. Among his works were studies of stellar atmospheres and lunar occultations and eclipses. He performed studies of the upper atmosphere, Aurora Borealis, the zodiacal light and the night airglow.
His name remains associated to the famous Eddington-Barbier relationships of analytical radiative transfer (see Barbier 1943{{Cite journal|last=Barbier|first=Daniel|date=1943|title=Sur la théorie du spectre continu des étoiles|journal=Annales d'Astrophysique|volume=6|pages=113|issn=0365-0499|bibcode=1943AnAp....6..113B}} and Paletou 2018{{cite journal|last=Paletou|first=Frédéric|date=2017-11-19|title=On Milne–Barbier–Unsöld relationships|journal=Open Astronomy|volume=27|issue=1|page=76|doi=10.1515/astro-2018-0018|arxiv=1711.07026|bibcode=2018OAst...27...76P|s2cid=54705194}}).
Honors
- The lunar crater Barbier was named after him in 1970.{{GPN|605|name=Barbier (crater)}}
- Asteroid 37853 Danielbarbier, discovered by Eric Elst at La Silla Observatory in 1998, was named in his honor. The official {{MoMP|37853|naming citation}} was published by the Minor Planet Center on 5 October 2017 ({{small|M.P.C. 106501}}).
References
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|title = MPC/MPO/MPS Archive
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- {{cite journal | last = Vigroux | first = Ernest | title=Necrologia: Daniel Barbier | journal=Ciel et Terre | year=1999 | volume=81 | pages=137 | bibcode=1965C&T....81..137V }}
- {{cite journal |author1=D. H. Menzel |author2=M. Minnaert |author3=B. Levin |author4=A. Dollfus |author5=B. Bell | title=Report on Lunar Nomenclature by The Working Group of Commission 17 of the IAU | journal=Space Science Reviews | year=1971 | volume=12 | issue = 2 | pages=136 | bibcode=1971SSRv...12..136M | doi=10.1007/BF00171763 |s2cid=122125855 }}
- {{cite journal |author1=F. Paletou | title=On Milne-Barbier-Unsöld relationships | journal=Open Astronomy | year=2018 | volume=27 | issue = 1 | pages=76–79 | doi=10.1515/astro-2018-0018 | arxiv=1711.07026 | bibcode=2018OAst...27...76P | s2cid=54705194 }}
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Category:20th-century French astronomers
Category:Recipients of the Lalande Prize
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