Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier

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Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier, French astronomer; son of Andre Laugier, chemist (1770-1832); born in Paris, December 22, 1812; studied astronomy under François Arago; obtained a post in the observatory at Paris; made important discoveries in regard to magnetism, comets, eclipses, meteors, and sunspots; made improvements in astronomical clocks; determined the exact latitute of the Paris observatory (1853), correcting previous errors: published a catalogue of fifty-three nebulae, and another (1857) of the declination of 140 stars, and contributed astronomical papers to the Connaissance du Temps. He was long associated with Arago in researches on terrestrial physics, and was for some years president of the Academy of Sciences. Died in Paris, April 5, 1872.

This article incorporates text from the Universal Cyclopædia & Atlas, 1902 ed., New York, D. Appleton & Co., a publication now in the public domain.