The Most Famous
ASTRONOMERS from Serbia
This page contains a list of the greatest Serbian Astronomers. The pantheon dataset contains 644 Astronomers, 1 of which were born in Serbia. This makes Serbia the birth place of the 47th most number of Astronomers behind Moldova, and Guernsey.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Serbian Astronomers of all time. This list of famous Serbian Astronomers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Milorad B. Protić (1911 - 2001)
With an HPI of 48.08, Milorad B. Protić is the most famous Serbian Astronomer. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Milorad B. Protić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Б. Протић; 19 September 1911, Belgrade – 29 October 2001, Belgrade) was a Serbian astronomer, discoverer of comets and minor planets, and three times director of the Belgrade Observatory. Protić is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 7 numbered asteroids during 1936–1952, including 1675 Simonida, named after queen Simonida, wife of medieval Serbian king Stefan Milutin, and 2348 Michkovitch, a rare Erigone asteroid named after Vojislav Mišković (1892–1976), who was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and head of the Belgrade Observatory. Protić also independently discovered comet C/1947 Y1. Protić died on 29 October 2001 in Belgrade. The main-belt asteroid 22278 Protitch, discovered by Henri Debehogne at ESO's Chilean La Silla site in 1983, was named in his memory. Naming citation was published on 30 December 2001 (M.P.C. 44186). Also, the outer main-belt asteroid 1724 Vladimir is named after Protić's grandson, while 5397 Vojislava is named after Vojislava Protić-Benišek, his daughter, who has been a member of the observatory's staff since 1972, where she continues her father's work on celestial mechanics and minor planets, together with her son.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Serbian astronomers born between 1911 and 1911. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Serbian astronomers include Milorad B. Protić.
