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Lucien Rudaux (French:[lysjɛ̃ʁydo]; 1874–1947) was aFrench artist andastronomer, who created famous paintings ofspace themes in the 1920s and 1930s.

TheRudauxcrater onMars and theLucien Rudaux Memorial Award are named in his honor. The asteroid3574 Rudaux is also named for him.^[1]

Lucien Rudaux was the son of the painter Edmond Rudaux, and grandfather by marriage of the French physicist Francis Rocard.

In 1892, he joined theSociété astronomique de France. In 1894, he founded an observatory in Donville. In 1895–1896, he completed his military service at Granville.

From 1903, he was a science writer and artist for Nature and, from 1905, for L'Illustration.

He was in military service from August 1914 in the 79th Territorial Infantry Regiment. In 1915 he joined the 10th nursing section until 1917.

In 1936, he lived in 113 Boulevard Saint-Michel in Paris.

In 1912 he was appointed an Officer of Public Instruction. He was a member of the Astronomical Society of France and the National Meteorological Office. In 1936, he was awarded a knighthood (Chevalier) in theLegion of Honour.

He was the director of a small observatory,Donville-les-Bains in Normandy, and contributed to the establishment of the "Astronomy" in the "Palais de la découverte".

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  In other worlds
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  Dangers of space
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  Mars

L. Rudaux, G. Vaucouleurs;Astronomy (1962)

• Librairie Garnier Frères, ed. (1915).Ce qu'on voit dans le ciel - notions pratiques d'astronomie (in French). Paris.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Alphonse Berget (1923). Librairie Larousse (ed.).Le Ciel (in French). Paris.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link), illustrated by Lucien Rudaux.
• Larousse, ed. (1925).Manuel Pratique d'Astronomie (in French). Paris.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (later editions 1952, with collaboratorGérard de Vaucouleurs)
• Larousse, ed. (1937).Sur Les Autres Mondes (in French). Paris.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (later edition. 1990)
• Nouvelles Éditions Latines, ed. (1947).La Lune et son histoire (in French). Paris.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Lucien Rudaux;Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1948). Librairie Larousse (ed.).Astronomie, les astres, l'univers (in French). Paris.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (later editions. 1952, 1956)

• http://iaaa.org/gallery/rudaux/
• http://www.fabiofeminofantascience.org/PAUL/PAUL2.html

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