Editing Nice Observatory (section)

== Directors and Associated Personalities ==

The observatory has had the following directors:
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* [[Henri Perrotin]] (1880–1904)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Observatory|volume=25|date=1904|publisher=Editors of the Observatory|pages=171, 176|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aZcOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA176}}</ref>
* General J. A. L. Bassot (1904–1917)<ref name="Bassot">{{cite book|title=Popular astronomy|volume=25|date=1917|publisher=Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College|pages=411, 480|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FAJLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA480}}</ref>
* Gaston Fayet (1917–1962)<ref name="Bassot" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Case Newsletter|number=6|date=April 2001|url=http://www.bath.ac.uk/ncuacs/casenl6.htm|work=Cooperation on Archives of Science in Europe|publisher=[[University of Bath]]|access-date=23 July 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070207101132/http://www.bath.ac.uk/ncuacs/casenl6.htm|archive-date=7 February 2007}}</ref>
* [[Jean-Claude Pecker]] (1962–1969)<ref>{{cite book|title=Current issues in cosmology|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|isbn=978-0-521-85898-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VXTLsPS3q_0C|editor=Jean-Claude Pecker|editor2=Jayant Vishnu Narlikar|access-date=23 July 2010|page=i|date=2006}}</ref>
* Philippe Delache (1969–1972)<ref name="PhDelache">{{cite journal|last=Bonnet|first=R. M.|title=The scientific achievements of Ph. Delache|journal=Sounding solar and stellar interiors|date=1996|pages=222|editor1-last=Janine Provost, Francois-Xavier Schmider|publisher=Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers|bibcode=1997IAUS..181..221B|isbn=0792348389}}</ref>
* Jean-Paul Zahn (1972–1975)
* Philippe Delache (1975)<ref name="PhDelache" />
* Jean-Paul Zahn (1975–1981)
* Raymond Michard (1981-1989)
* Philippe Delache (1989–1994)<ref name="PhDelache" />
* José Pacheco (1994–1999)
* Jacques Colin (1999–2009)
* Farrokh Vakili (2009–2015)
* Thierry Lanz (2015-2021)
* Stéphane Mazevet (since 2021)
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The following notable figures are also associated with its history:

* [[Auguste Charlois]]
* [[Paul Couteau]]
* [[Jean-Louis Heudier]]
* [[Joanny-Philippe Lagrula]]
* [[Marguerite Laugier]]
* [[Guy Reiss]]
* [[Alexandre Schaumasse]]
* [[Henri Chrétien]]
* [[Michel Hénon]]
* [[François Mignard]]
* [[Alessandro Morbidelli (astronomer)|Alessandro Morbidelli]]
* [[Patrick Michel]].