• Gérard Henri de Vaucouleurs (25 April 1918 – 7 October 1995) was a French astronomer best known for his studies of galaxies. Gerard de Vaucouleurs was...
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    The de Vaucouleurs system for classifying galaxies is a widely used extension to the Hubble sequence, first described by Gérard de Vaucouleurs in 1959...
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  • de Vaucouleurs's law, also known as the de Vaucouleurs profile or de Vaucouleurs model, describes how the surface brightness I {\displaystyle I} of an...
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  • recognition of a lifetime of dedication to astronomy". de Vaucouleurs, Gérard; de Vaucouleurs, Antoinette (1964). Reference catalogue of bright galaxies...
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    RAND Corporation, he assisted NASA in mapping Mars with colleagues Gérard de Vaucouleurs and Harold Masursky and defined the prime meridian of Mars as passing...
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    pole) Cetus Pisces Andromeda Perseus In the 1950s the astronomer Gérard de Vaucouleurs recognized the existence of a flattened “local supercluster” from...
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    doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06531.x. S2CID 119383732. De Vaucouleurs, Gerard; De Vaucouleurs, Antoinette; Corwin, Herold G.; Buta, Ronald J.; Paturel...
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    Eridanus, Horologium, and Dorado. It was first identified in 1953 by Gérard de Vaucouleurs. The Southern Supercluster contains three main clusters, the Dorado...
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    the north galactic pole. In the 1950s, French–American astronomer Gérard de Vaucouleurs was the first to argue that this excess represented a large-scale...
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    California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 8 April 2019. De Vaucouleurs, Gerard; De Vaucouleurs, Antoinette; Corwin, Herold G.; Buta, Ronald J.; Paturel...
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