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Alenush Terian

1921 - 2011

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Ālenush Teriān (Armenian: Ալենուշ Տէրեան; Persian: آلنوش طریان; also: آلنوش تریان; November 9, 1921 – March 4, 2011) was an Iranian-Armenian astronomer and physicist and is called 'Mother of Modern Iranian Astronomy'. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alenush Terian has received more than 218,173 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Alenush Terian is the 385th most popular astronomer (up from 416th in 2019), the 368th most popular biography from Iran (down from 335th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Iranian Astronomer.

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  • 29

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Alenush Terian ranks 385 out of 644. Before her are Johann von Lamont, Christoph Arnold, Margaret Geller, André Patry, Henry E. Holt, and James L. Elliot. After her are George Henry Peters, Nathaniel Bliss, Janet Akyüz Mattei, George O. Abell, Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, and Ernst Hartwig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Alenush Terian ranks 264. Before her are Reinhard Mohn, Bertil Antonsson, Lis Hartel, Edvard Mirzoyan, Mario Rigoni Stern, and Cuthbert Sebastian. After her are Buddy Rogers, Paco Godia, Alfréd Rényi, Harry Daghlian, Helena Rakoczy, and David Gale. Among people deceased in 2011, Alenush Terian ranks 262. Before her are Marco Simoncelli, Moacyr Scliar, Gil Scott-Heron, Anna Massey, Géza Alföldy, and James L. Elliot. After her are Francesco Quinn, Grete Waitz, Scott Columbus, Nate Dogg, Amparo Muñoz, and Sakyo Komatsu.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Alenush Terian ranks 368 out of 631. Before her are Viguen (1929), Nusrat Bhutto (1929), Sardar Azmoun (1995), Marshall Manesh (1950), Ehsan Yarshater (1920), and Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh (1892). After her are Ebi (1949), Fakhr-un-Nisa (1092), Timur Shah Durrani (1748), Darius Khondji (1955), Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (1964), and Abu Said Gorgani (850).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Iran

Among astronomers born in Iran, Alenush Terian ranks 5. Before her are Ulugh Beg (1394), Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903), Jamshīd al-Kāshī (1380), and Abu Hanifa Dinawari (815).

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