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Bohdan Paczyński

1940 - 2007

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Bohdan Paczyński or Bohdan Paczynski (8 February 1940 – 19 April 2007) was a Polish astronomer notable for his theories and work in the fields of stellar evolution, accretion discs, and gamma ray bursts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bohdan Paczyński has received more than 41,854 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Bohdan Paczyński is the 506th most popular astronomer (down from 471st in 2019), the 181st most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 144th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Lithuanian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Bohdan Paczyński ranks 506 out of 644Before him are Pierre Puiseux, Michel Giacobini, Matvey Gusev, Hisashi Kimura, Julie Vinter Hansen, and Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker. After him are Jane Luu, Ernest Esclangon, DeLisle Stewart, Kaoru Ikeya, Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, and Edwin Foster Coddington.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Bohdan Paczyński ranks 468Before him are Walter Alvarez, Luis Ubiña, Jozef Štibrányi, Dave DeBusschere, Paul Williams, and Richard D. Ryder. After him are Jürgen Sundermann, Barbara Boxer, Chuck Mangione, Thue Christiansen, Joe Torre, and Willi Holdorf. Among people deceased in 2007, Bohdan Paczyński ranks 324Before him are Srđan Mrkušić, Laraine Day, Atilio Cremaschi, Leslie Orgel, Noël Milarew Odingar, and John Gardner. After him are Jerry Falwell, Eugen Walaschek, Heinz Schiller, José Antonio Roca, Dragutin Tadijanović, and Joseph Nérette.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Bohdan Paczyński ranks 181 out of 328Before him are Zigmantas Balčytis (1953), Abram Room (1894), Aleksander Prystor (1874), Hans-Georg Reimann (1941), Šarūnas Bartas (1964), and Jonas Vileišis (1872). After him are Stepas Butautas (1925), Romas Ubartas (1960), Laurynas Stankevičius (1935), Gediminas Vagnorius (1957), Violeta Urmana (1961), and Zehava Gal-On (1956).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Lithuania

Among astronomers born in Lithuania, Bohdan Paczyński ranks 2Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799).