| 1215 Boyer | January 19, 1932 | [2] |
| 1622 Chacornac | March 15, 1952 | [3] |
| 1614 Goldschmidt | April 18, 1952 | [4] |
| 3156 Ellington | March 15, 1953 | [5] |
Alfred Schmitt (30 November 1907 – 2 April 1975[6]) was a Frenchastronomer. Schmitt worked atAlgiers Observatory in the 1930s and 1940s and at theRoyal Observatory inUccle,Belgium in the 1950s. From 1955 to 1958 he was also director of theQuito Observatory in Ecuador. He extensively studied minor planets and comets and is credited with having discovered fourasteroids.[7]
Between 1940 and 1948 he married his colleague, astronomerOdette Bancilhon and thereafter she signed her work asO. Schmitt-Bancilhon.[8]
Schmitt's publications are all signedA. Schmitt, following the practice of his profession at that time.
In 1932, Schmitt discovered an asteroid while working at the Algiers Observatory and named it in honor of his colleague,Louis Boyer – asteroid1215 Boyer.[9]
20 years later, Boyer named1617 Alschmitt in Schmitt's honor.[7]
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