Daniel Barbier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Daniel Barbier

French astronomer

Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1907

Place of Birth: Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Date of Death: 01-Apr-1965

Profession: astronomer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Daniel Barbier (10 December 1907 – 1 April 1965) was a French astronomer born in Lyon.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 and Paletou 2018). The crater Barbier on the Moon is named after him.