The Most Famous
ASTRONOMERS from Turkmenistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Turkmen Astronomers. The pantheon dataset contains 531 Astronomers, 1 of which were born in Turkmenistan. This makes Turkmenistan the birth place of the 41st most number of Astronomers behind Slovenia and Tajikistan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Turkmen Astronomers of all time. This list of famous Turkmen Astronomers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi (770 - 874)
With an HPI of 54.05, Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi is the most famous Turkmen Astronomer. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi (766 – d. after 869 in Samarra, modern Iraq) was a Persian astronomer, geographer, and mathematician from Merv in Khorasan, who was the first to describe the trigonometric ratios tangent, and cotangent. Habash flourished in Baghdad, and died a centenarian some time after 869. He worked under two Abbasid caliphs, al-Ma'mun and al-Mu'tasim.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronomers born between 770 and 770. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased astronomers include Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi.
