Odette Bancilhon
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1333 Cevenola | February 20, 1934 |
Odette Bancilhon was a French astronomer, active in the 1930s and 1940s at Algiers Observatory. All of her publications are signed O. Bancilhon, a current practice back then.
She discovered the asteroid 1333 Cevenola.
She later married her colleague Alfred Schmitt in the 1940s, and was known professionally as O. Schmitt-Bancilhon.
The asteroid 1713 Bancilhon is named after her.