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Arno Arthur Wachmann

1902 - 1990

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Arno Arthur Wachmann (8 March 1902 – 24 July 1990) was a German astronomer and discoverer of comets and minor planets, who worked for many years at the Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg. With Arnold Schwassmann he co-discovered the periodic comets 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann, 31P/Schwassmann–Wachmann and 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann. The Minor Planet Center credits him with the discovery of 3 asteroids during 1938–1939. He also discovered supernova SN 1938B. The inner main-belt asteroid 1704 Wachmann was named in his honor (M.P.C. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arno Arthur Wachmann has received more than 14,490 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Arno Arthur Wachmann is the 480th most popular astronomer (up from 483rd in 2019), the 4,907th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,525th in 2019) and the 71st most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Arno Arthur Wachmann ranks 480 out of 644. Before him are Pelageya Shajn, Forest Ray Moulton, Heinrich Kreutz, Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist, Audouin Dollfus, and Carl A. Wirtanen. After him are Hiroki Kosai, Barnaba Oriani, William Henry Smyth, Karl Ludwig Littrow, Louise du Pierry, and Lipót Schulhof.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Arno Arthur Wachmann ranks 263. Before him are Herbert Copeland, Sergei Lemeshev, Otto Winzer, Chet Miller, Curt Siodmak, and Daniel Kinsey. After him are Jaime Torres Bodet, Will Geer, Skip James, Nikolaus Pevsner, Bronisław Kaper, and Veli Saarinen. Among people deceased in 1990, Arno Arthur Wachmann ranks 237. Before him are Ina Balin, Cazuza, Charlotte Moore Sitterly, Edward Binns, Wilhelm Baumann, and Carl A. Wirtanen. After him are Bahriye Üçok, Sadi Irmak, Pasquale Fornara, Giorgio Scarlatti, Yevgeniya Sechenova, and Norman Cousins.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Arno Arthur Wachmann ranks 4,907 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Jakob Bernhardi (1774), Elisabeth Langgässer (1899), Max Lorenz (1939), Gabriele Zimmer (1955), Rainer Ludwig Claisen (1851), and Ellen von Unwerth (1954). After him are Edin Terzić (1982), Fritz Herkenrath (1928), Hermann Lietz (1868), Christopher Cockerell (1910), Karin Baal (1940), and Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers (1816).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Arno Arthur Wachmann ranks 71. Before him are Gustav Spörer (1822), Cuno Hoffmeister (1892), Gottfried Kirch (1639), Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), and Heinrich Kreutz (1854). After him are Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (1788), Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912), Hans-Emil Schuster (1934), Erika Böhm-Vitense (1923), Alfred Bohrmann (1904), and Eva Grebel (1966).

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