Philippe Véron


Philippe Véron was a French astronomer. He worked at Observatoire de Haute Provence, where he was director from 1985 to 1994.
He studied variability and statistics of quasars, as well as elliptical galaxies. He was married to French astronomer Marie-Paule Véron-Cetty, and together with her 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 It is unpublished but is available online in PDF form at http://www.obs-hp.fr/dictionnaire.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.