The Most Famous
ASTRONOMERS from Romania
This page contains a list of the greatest Romanian Astronomers. The pantheon dataset contains 531 Astronomers, 1 of which were born in Romania. This makes Romania the birth place of the 55th most number of Astronomers behind Belarus and Morocco.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Romanian Astronomers of all time. This list of famous Romanian Astronomers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. György Kulin (1905 - 1989)
With an HPI of 40.16, György Kulin is the most famous Romanian Astronomer. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
György Kulin (Nagyszalonta 28 January 1905 – 22 April 1989 Budapest) was a Hungarian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. He discovered 21 asteroids and is a co-discoverer of the comet C/1942 C1 (Whipple-Bernasconi-Kulin). In addition to astronomy he also wrote some science fiction. The asteroid 3019 Kulin was named in his honor.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronomers born between 1905 and 1905. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased astronomers include György Kulin.
