Félix Chemla Lamèch

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Félix Chemla Lamèch (1894 – 1962) was a French meteorologist and selenographer.

He was born in Tunisia, and went to the University of Athens where he studied meteorology. He built an observatory in Corfu in 1927, and additional observatories in France, Africa, and South America. He also produced several maps of the moon and published several papers on astronomy in the Ciel et Terre.

Lamèch crater on the Moon was named for him.

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