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Chushiro Hayashi

1920 - 2010

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Chushiro Hayashi (林 忠四郎, Hayashi Chūshirō, July 25, 1920 – February 28, 2010) was a Japanese astrophysicist. Hayashi tracks on the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram are named after him. Hayashi was born in Kyoto and enrolled at the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1940, earning his BSc in Physics after 2½ years, in 1942. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chushiro Hayashi has received more than 31,341 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Chushiro Hayashi is the 432nd most popular astronomer (down from 391st in 2019), the 1,205th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,055th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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  • 18

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  • 2.71

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Chushiro Hayashi ranks 432 out of 531Before him are Robert Julius Trumpler, James L. Elliot, Cleveland Abbe, Alfred Bohrmann, Ralph Copeland, and Schelte J. Bus. After him are Pelageya Shajn, Edward Pigott, James Gunn, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, Ruby Payne-Scott, and Paris Pişmiş.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Chushiro Hayashi ranks 307Before him are Reginald Rose, Marie Ljalková, Katsuko Saruhashi, Jean Marcel Honoré, Enzo Biagi, and Zeno Colò. After him are William Tenn, Claude Cheysson, Stan Musial, Olle Åhlund, Ella Raines, and Gino Cappello. Among people deceased in 2010, Chushiro Hayashi ranks 280Before him are Pedro Dellacha, István Bilek, Clarke Scholes, Nino Defilippis, Maury Chaykin, and Hal Connolly. After him are Edoardo Sanguineti, Vladimir Maslachenko, Ángel Cabrera, Ilene Woods, William Tenn, and Nujabes.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Chushiro Hayashi ranks 1,205 out of 6,048Before him are Sanae Mishima (1957), Mikio Aoki (1934), Hyde (1969), Chiaki Yamada (1966), Hironobu Kageyama (1961), and Satoshi Yamaguchi (1959). After him are Iccho Itoh (1945), Marie Kondo (1984), Maya Yoshida (1988), Fumio Gotō (1884), Maria Ozawa (1986), and Chiharu Igaya (1931).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Chushiro Hayashi ranks 3Before him are Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874) and Tsutomu Seki (1930). After him are Takeshi Urata (1947), Yuji Hyakutake (1950), Hisashi Kimura (1870), Hiroki Kosai (1933), Seiji Ueda (1952), Kiichirō Furukawa (1929), Okuro Oikawa (1896), Hiroshi Kaneda (1953), and Takao Kobayashi (1961).