Louis Boyer (1901–1999) was a French astronomer who worked at the Algiers Observatory, North Africa, where he discovered 40 asteroids between 1930 and 1952.
In the 1950s and 1960s. he worked on identifications of small Solar System bodies at Nice Observatory in southeastern France. The asteroid 1215 Boyer, discovered by his colleague Alfred Schmitt at Algiers in 1932, was named after him. In turn Boyer named the 1617 Alschmitt asteroid in honor of Schmitt.
Boyer also named 1713 Bancilhon after Odette Bancilhon his colleague and wife of astronomer Alfred Schmitt.
| Discoveries by Louis Boyer (i) | ||
|---|---|---|
| November 24, 1930 | ||
| December 2, 1931 | ||
| December 3, 1931 | ||
| November 25, 1933 | ||
| November 25, 1933 | ||
| March 7, 1934 | ||
| December 4, 1934 | ||
| December 4, 1934 | ||
| December 27, 1934 | ||
| March 29, 1935 | ||
| April 1, 1935 | ||
| November 18, 1935 | ||
| February 14, 1936 | ||
| March 16, 1936 | ||
| Discoveries by Louis Boyer (ii) | ||
|---|---|---|
| March 16, 1936 | ||
| November 17, 1936 | ||
| January 19, 1937 | ||
| February 12, 1937 | ||
| February 12, 1937 | ||
| March 4, 1937 | ||
| March 4, 1937 | ||
| March 22, 1939 | ||
| March 22, 1949 | ||
| January 19, 1949 | ||
| November 23, 1949 | ||
| March 7, 1949 | ||
| February 11, 1950 | ||
| November 17, 1950 | ||
| Discoveries by Louis Boyer (iii) | ||
|---|---|---|
| May 18, 1942 | ||
| September 14, 1950 | ||
| March 15, 1950 | ||
| March 20, 1952 | ||
| February 28, 1952 | ||
| February 28, 1952 | ||
| February 27, 1951 | ||
| September 27, 1951 | ||
| July 25, 1951 | ||
| November 9, 1950 | ||
| June 26, 1936 | ||
| October 17, 1942 | ||
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