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The Most Famous

ASTRONOMERS from Bulgaria

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This page contains a list of the greatest Bulgarian Astronomers. The pantheon dataset contains 531 Astronomers, 1 of which were born in Bulgaria. This makes Bulgaria the birth place of the 37th most number of Astronomers behind Lithuania and Saudi Arabia.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bulgarian Astronomers of all time. This list of famous Bulgarian Astronomers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Fritz Zwicky (1898 - 1974)

With an HPI of 63.78, Fritz Zwicky is the most famous Bulgarian Astronomer.  His biography has been translated into 49 different languages on wikipedia.

Fritz Zwicky (; German: [ˈtsvɪki]; February 14, 1898 – February 8, 1974) was a Swiss astronomer. He worked most of his life at the California Institute of Technology in the United States of America, where he made many important contributions in theoretical and observational astronomy. In 1933, Zwicky was the first to use the virial theorem to postulate the existence of unseen dark matter, describing it as "dunkle Materie".

Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronomers born between 1898 and 1898. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased astronomers include Fritz Zwicky.

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