André Patry


1509 EsclangonaDecember 21, 1938
1510 CharloisFebruary 22, 1939
1515 PerrotinNovember 15, 1936
1516 HenryJanuary 28, 1938
1539 BorrellyOctober 29, 1940
1756 GiacobiniDecember 24, 1937
1797 SchaumasseNovember 15, 1936
3142 KilopiJanuary 9, 1937
4162 SAFNovember 24, 1940

André Patry was a French astronomer and discoverer of 9 minor planets in the late 1930s.
Patry was orphaned at a young age, and began working as a 17-year-old at the Nice Observatory in southeastern France. He studied asteroids and discovered several himself. The inner main-belt asteroid 1601 Patry was named in his honor.