Félix Chemla Lamèch

Félix Chemla Lamèch (11 January 1894 – 14 May 1962) was a Greek-French astronomer, meteorologist, selenographer, and celestial cartographer.

[2][3] Félix was born in Ariana (Tunis) and traveled to Greece in the 1920s where he built the Corfu Observatory to study the Moon, Saturn, and other astronomical phenomena.

After the war, the Corfu Observatory was decommissioned because it was bombed and the Astronomical Society of Greece ceased operations.

That same year Félix founded the Greek Astronomical Society of Greece which was authorized by the President of the Hellenic Republic Theodoros Pangalos who visited the observatory along with Archbishop Athinagoras.

[2] On 9 July 1927 Félix gave a lecture About Comets, Their Laws, and Their Origin at the summer theater called Phoenix.

By September 1927, Félix was criticized by the engineer and theologian P. Kokkolis in the newspaper Corkyraiki Elpis regarding the origin of the universe.

In July 1928, the local ecclesiastical community attacked Félix once again in the publication Agios Spyridon directed by Archimandrite Parthenios Pollakis.

The cause of the attack were the popular astronomy lectures and articles published by Félix about the creation of the universe based on scientific evidence.

By early 1929, Félix left Corfu taking with him critical astronomical instruments which almost led to the dissolution of the observatory.

Around the same period, Félix became the head of the Toulouse Meteorological Service at the Garonne Observatory but frequently returned to Corfu.

5408) and dated 12 September 1956, attached to it is a series of diagrams of the lunar formations with the marking that they were made mainly in Corfu.

He resumed his scientific activity and spent the last years of his life in a deserted villa in the Paris suburb of Aulney-sous-Bois.

The observatory was the first facility used by Jean Focas and also assisted Félix and other extraordinary astronomers in their journey to further understand the universe.

[2][6] On 4 December 1926 Félix introduced the idea of a Greek Astronomical Society; it was created on 13 February 1927 by unanimous vote.

The Greek Astronomical Society of Greece was authorized by the President of the Hellenic Republic Theodoros Pangalos.

The rules of the Astronomical Society of Greece (AETE) were voted in the hall of the 2nd Gymnasium by a 5-member temporary committee.

Felix Chemla Lamech
Corfu Observatory