Alfred Schmitt
{| class="wikitable floatright" |+ Asteroids discovered | 1215 Boyer || January 19, 1932 || align=center | |- | 1622 Chacornac || March 15, 1952 || align=center | |- | 1614 Goldschmidt || April 18, 1952 || align=center | |- | 3156 Ellington || March 15, 1953 || align=center | |}Alfred Schmitt (30 November 1907 – 2 April 1975) was a French astronomer. Schmitt worked at Algiers Observatory in the 1930s and 1940s and at the Royal Observatory in Uccle, Belgium in the 1950s. From 1955 to 1958 he was also director of the Quito Observatory in Ecuador. He extensively studied minor planets and comets and is credited with having discovered four asteroids. Provided by Wikipedia
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