The Most Famous
ASTRONOMERS from Luxembourg
This page contains a list of the greatest Luxembourger Astronomers. The pantheon dataset contains 531 Astronomers, 1 of which were born in Luxembourg. This makes Luxembourg the birth place of the 42nd most number of Astronomers behind Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Luxembourger Astronomers of all time. This list of famous Luxembourger Astronomers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Sylvain Arend (1902 - 1992)
With an HPI of 51.48, Sylvain Arend is the most famous Luxembourger Astronomer. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Sylvain Julien Victor Arend (6 August 1902 – 18 February 1992) was a Belgian astronomer born in Robelmont, Luxembourg province, Belgium. His main interest was astrometry. Together with Georges Roland, he discovered the bright comet C/1956 R1 (Arend-Roland). He also discovered, or co-discovered, the periodic comets 49P/Arend-Rigaux and 50P/Arend, Nova Scuti 1952, and a number of asteroids, including notably the Amor asteroid 1916 Boreas and the Trojan asteroid 1583 Antilochus. He also discovered 1652 Hergé which is named after Hergé, the creator of The Adventures of Tintin. The asteroid 1563 Noël is named after his son, Emanuel Arend. In 1948 Arend started together with sixteen other people the skeptic organisation Comité Para. The outer main-belt asteroid 1502 Arenda was named in his honor.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronomers born between 1902 and 1902. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased astronomers include Sylvain Arend.
