Philippe Véron

Philippe Véron was a French astronomer. He worked at the Observatoire de Haute Provence, where he was director from 1985 to 1994.
He studied the variability and statistics of quasars, as well as the elliptical galaxies. He was married to French astronomer Marie-Paule Véron-Cetty. Moreover, together with her, he compiled and maintained the, whose thirteenth edition was published in 2010.
At the time of his death, he was working on the Dictionnaire des Astronomes Français 1850–1950, which is a biographical encyclopedia. It is unpublished but is available online in PDF form at http://www.obs-hp.fr/dictionnaire.
Asteroid 5260 Philvéron is named after him.