The Most Famous
ASTRONOMERS from Croatia
This page contains a list of the greatest Croatian Astronomers. The pantheon dataset contains 531 Astronomers, 2 of which were born in Croatia. This makes Croatia the birth place of the 34th most number of Astronomers behind Syria and Iraq.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Croatian Astronomers of all time. This list of famous Croatian Astronomers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711 - 1787)
With an HPI of 66.90, Roger Joseph Boscovich is the most famous Croatian Astronomer. Her biography has been translated into 43 different languages on wikipedia.
Roger Joseph Boscovich (Croatian: Ruđer Josip Bošković; pronounced [rûd͡ʑer jǒsip bôʃkoʋit͡ɕ]; Italian: Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich; Latin: Rogerius (Iosephus) Boscovicius; 18 May 1711 – 13 February 1787) was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath from the Republic of Ragusa. He studied and lived in Italy and France where he also published many of his works. Boscovich produced a precursor of atomic theory and made many contributions to astronomy, including the first geometric procedure for determining the equator of a rotating planet from three observations of a surface feature and for computing the orbit of a planet from three observations of its position. In 1753 he also discovered the absence of an atmosphere on the Moon.
2. Korado Korlević (1958 - )
With an HPI of 39.65, Korado Korlević is the 2nd most famous Croatian Astronomer. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.
Korado Korlević (born 19 September 1958 in Poreč) is a Croatian teacher and prolific amateur astronomer, who ranks among the world's top 20 discoverers of minor planets. As of 2016, he is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 1162 numbered minor planets he made at Višnjan Observatory during 1996–2001. In addition, he is credited with the co-discovery of another 132 minor planets. His discoveries include the slowly-rotating outer main-belt asteroid 10415 Mali Lošinj, and 10645 Brač, a member of the Eunomia family of asteroids. He has also discovered two comets, namely 183P/Korlević-Jurić and 203P/Korlević.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as astronomers born between 1711 and 1958. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living astronomers include Korado Korlević. The most famous deceased astronomers include Roger Joseph Boscovich. As of April 2022, 1 new astronomers have been added to Pantheon including Roger Joseph Boscovich.
