Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer and educator (born 1761)

Jean-Louis Pons

French astronomer (1761–1831)

Jean-Louis Pons was a French astronomer. Despite humble beginnings and being self-taught, he went on to become the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827 Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.