The Most Famous
ASTRONOMERS from Hong Kong
This page contains a list of the greatest Chinese Astronomers. The pantheon dataset contains 644 Astronomers, 1 of which were born in Hong Kong. This makes Hong Kong the birth place of the 57th most number of Astronomers behind Romania, and Vietnam.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Chinese Astronomers of all time. This list of famous Chinese Astronomers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. William Kwong Yu Yeung (b. 1960)
With an HPI of 38.53, William Kwong Yu Yeung is the most famous Chinese Astronomer. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
William Kwong Yu Yeung (born 1960; also known simply as Bill Yeung; Chinese: 楊光宇) is a Hong Kong-born, Canadian amateur astronomer with telescopes based in the United States. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids and also discovered the comet 172P/Yeung. He also discovered the object J002E3, which was first thought to be an asteroid, but is now known to be part of a Saturn V Rocket that propelled Apollo 12 into space. He worked first from "Rock Finder Observatory" (IAU code 652) in Calgary, Alberta, and now works from Arizona's Desert Beaver Observatory (919) and Desert Eagle Observatory (333).
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Chinese astronomers born between 1960 and 1960. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Chinese astronomers include William Kwong Yu Yeung.
