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August Kopff

1882 - 1960

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August Kopff (February 5, 1882 – April 25, 1960) was a German astronomer and discoverer of several comets and asteroids. Kopff studied and worked in Heidelberg, getting his PhD there in 1906 and he then joined the Humboldt University of Berlin where he became the Director of the Institute for Astronomical Calculation. He discovered some comets, including periodic comet 22P/Kopff and the non-periodic C/1906 E1. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Kopff has received more than 27,283 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). August Kopff is the 142nd most popular astronomer (up from 177th in 2019), the 1,621st most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,218th in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, August Kopff ranks 142 out of 644. Before him are Nikolai Chernykh, Maria Margaretha Kirch, Dorothea Klumpke, Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Henry Draper, and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld. After him are Johann Daniel Titius, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Mariam al-Asturlabi, and George Biddell Airy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, August Kopff ranks 80. Before him are Joaquín Turina, Leopold Stokowski, Harold Lowe, Natalia Sedova, Feng Yuxiang, and Ernst von Weizsäcker. After him are Yoshijirō Umezu, Eugène Joseph Delporte, William Halsey Jr., Princess Louise of Orléans, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Artur Schnabel. Among people deceased in 1960, August Kopff ranks 48. Before him are Eddie Cochran, Frank Lloyd, Jussi Björling, Beno Gutenberg, Vicki Baum, and Yan Xishan. After him are Feroze Gandhi, Pierre Reverdy, Salvatore Ferragamo, Sylvia Pankhurst, Antonie Pannekoek, and Abram Ioffe.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Kopff ranks 1,621 out of 7,253. Before him are Franz Xaver Schwarz (1875), Conrad, Margrave of Meissen (1097), Oliver Bierhoff (1968), Eduard Mörike (1804), Otto Wels (1873), and Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern (1890). After him are Wilhelm Rediess (1900), Frederick III, Elector Palatine (1515), Nicolaus Bruhns (1665), Andreas Karlstadt (1486), Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1783), and Mike Nichols (1931).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, August Kopff ranks 29. Before him are Heinrich Schwabe (1789), Hermann Goldschmidt (1802), Arthur Auwers (1838), Hermann Carl Vogel (1841), Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670), and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921). After him are Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (1870), Tobias Mayer (1723), Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745), Andreas Cellarius (1596), Martin Schwarzschild (1912), and Erasmus Reinhold (1511).

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