Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph, 1749-1822, astronomer.
Paris. To Joseph Nicolas Nicollet. Announces to Nicollet that he is to share half of
the Royal Academy of Sciences award for 1820 for his "grand travail" on the libration
of the moon with the German astronomer Johann Franz Encke for his observations of the
comet named for him at the public meeting on March 27., 1820,
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