The Most Famous
ASTRONOMERS from Tajikistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Tadzhik Astronomers. The pantheon dataset contains 644 Astronomers, 1 of which were born in Tajikistan. This makes Tajikistan the birth place of the 40th most number of Astronomers behind Afghanistan, and Slovenia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Tadzhik Astronomers of all time. This list of famous Tadzhik Astronomers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Abu-Mahmud Khojandi (940 - 1000)
With an HPI of 57.66, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi is the most famous Tadzhik Astronomer. His biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.
Abu Mahmud Hamid ibn al-Khidr al-Khujandi (known as Abu Mahmood Khujandi, al-khujandi or Khujandi, Persian: ابومحمود خجندی, c. 940 - 1000) was a Muslim Transoxanian astronomer and mathematician born in Khujand (now part of Tajikistan) who lived in the late 10th century and helped build an observatory, near the city of Ray (near today's Tehran), in Iran.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Tadzhik astronomers born between 940 and 940. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Tadzhik astronomers include Abu-Mahmud Khojandi.
