The Most Famous
ASTRONOMERS from Czech Republic
This page contains a list of the greatest Czech Astronomers. The pantheon dataset contains 531 Astronomers, 1 of which were born in Czech Republic. This makes Czech Republic the birth place of the 48th most number of Astronomers behind Guernsey and Serbia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Czech Astronomers of all time. This list of famous Czech Astronomers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Zdeňka Vávrová (1945 - )
With an HPI of 47.45, Zdeňka Vávrová is the most famous Czech Astronomer. Her biography has been translated into 27 different languages on wikipedia.
Zdeňka Vávrová (born 1945) is a Czech astronomer. She co-discovered periodic comet 134P/Kowal-Vávrová. She had observed it as an asteroid, which received the provisional designation 1983 JG, without seeing any cometary coma. However, later images by Charles T. Kowal showed a coma. The Minor Planet Center credits her with the discovery of 115 numbered minor planets. The Florian main-belt asteroid 3364 Zdenka, discovered by Antonín Mrkos in 1984, was named in her honor and for the 20 years she had been participating in Kleť Observatory's minor planet astrometry program. Naming citation was published on 26 February 1994 (M.P.C. 23136).
Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronomers born between 1945 and 1945. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living astronomers include Zdeňka Vávrová.
