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Carl A. Wirtanen

1910 - 1990

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Carl Alvar Wirtanen (November 11, 1910 – March 7, 1990) was an American astronomer and discoverer of comets and minor planets who worked at Lick Observatory. He was of Finnish ancestry. Wirtanen was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl A. Wirtanen has received more than 25,339 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Carl A. Wirtanen is the 479th most popular astronomer (down from 368th in 2019), the 7,768th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,776th in 2019) and the 95th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Carl A. Wirtanen ranks 479 out of 644. Before him are Charlotte Moore Sitterly, Pelageya Shajn, Forest Ray Moulton, Heinrich Kreutz, Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist, and Audouin Dollfus. After him are Arno Arthur Wachmann, Hiroki Kosai, Barnaba Oriani, William Henry Smyth, Karl Ludwig Littrow, and Louise du Pierry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Carl A. Wirtanen ranks 305. Before him are Frank Lubin, José dos Santos Lopes, Otto Andersson, Felipe Olivares, Noel Rosa, and Tom Richards. After him are John R. Pierce, Christopher Cockerell, Lien Gisolf, Genrikh Kasparyan, Algisto Lorenzato, and Carlo Orlandi. Among people deceased in 1990, Carl A. Wirtanen ranks 236. Before him are Allen Collins, Ina Balin, Cazuza, Charlotte Moore Sitterly, Edward Binns, and Wilhelm Baumann. After him are Arno Arthur Wachmann, Bahriye Üçok, Sadi Irmak, Pasquale Fornara, Giorgio Scarlatti, and Yevgeniya Sechenova.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carl A. Wirtanen ranks 7,768 out of 20,380. Before him are Alice Catherine Evans (1881), Shelley Morrison (1936), Ninja (1991), Trey Parker (1969), Robert Kramer (1939), and Rudy Tomjanovich (1948). After him are Arnie Robinson (1948), Malvina Reynolds (1900), Michael Beach (1963), John Norton (1893), John W. Snow (1939), and Dane DeHaan (1986).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Carl A. Wirtanen ranks 95. Before him are David Todd Wilkinson (1935), Stephen P. Synnott (1946), Schelte J. Bus (1956), Royal Harwood Frost (1879), Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898), and Forest Ray Moulton (1872). After him are William Wilson Morgan (1906), DeLisle Stewart (1870), Edwin Foster Coddington (1870), John N. Bahcall (1934), Roy A. Tucker (1951), and Edward S. Holden (1846).

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