Pierre Janssen

Jules Janssen; photograph by Nadar (date unknown)
Photo taken by Janssen, from the Meudon observatory, of Renard and Krebs' La France dirigible (1885)

Pierre Jules César Janssen (22 February 1824 – 23 December 1907), usually known as Jules Janssen, was a French astronomer who, along with English scientist Joseph Norman Lockyer, is credited with discovering the gaseous nature of the solar chromosphere, but there is no justification for the conclusion that he deserves credit for the co-discovery of the element helium.


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