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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 33,293 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Chushiro Hayashi is the 378th most popular astronomer (up from 432nd in 2019), the 1,152nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,202nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Chushiro Hayashi ranks 378 out of 644. Before him are Frank Watson Dyson, Gérard de Vaucouleurs, Brian G. Marsden, Adrien Auzout, Tadeáš Hájek, and Nicolas Fatio de Duillier. After him are Johann von Lamont, Christoph Arnold, Margaret Geller, André Patry, Henry E. Holt, and James L. Elliot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Chushiro Hayashi ranks 279. Before him are Sergio Livingstone, Ross Martin, Fedora Barbieri, Benoîte Groult, Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, and Bruno Ruffo. After him are Georges Balandier, Ehsan Yarshater, Rosemary Sutcliff, Helen Thomas, Richard N. Frye, and Reginald Rose. Among people deceased in 2010, Chushiro Hayashi ranks 234. Before him are George C. Williams, Robert Byrd, Jyoti Basu, Kenneth Noland, Brian G. Marsden, and Dezső Bundzsák. After him are Harry Vos, Galimzyan Khusainov, Jonathan Motzfeldt, Bob Guccione, José Ramos Delgado, and John du Pont.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Chushiro Hayashi ranks 1,152 out of 6,245. Before him are Shusaku Hirasawa (1949), Kappei Yamaguchi (1965), Mitsuo Kato (1953), Kuniya Daini (1944), Hiroshi Abe (1964), and Hisao Sekiguchi (1954). After him are Yasushi Akimoto (1958), Akemi Iwata (1954), Shozo Sasahara (1929), Yōko Ogawa (1962), Masato Harada (1949), and Ayako Wakao (1933).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Chushiro Hayashi ranks 3. Before him are Takeshi Urata (1947), and Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874). After him are Tsutomu Seki (1930), Hiroshi Kaneda (1953), Hiroki Kosai (1933), Yuji Hyakutake (1950), Takao Kobayashi (1961), Hisashi Kimura (1870), Kaoru Ikeya (1943), Minoru Honda (1913), and Okuro Oikawa (1896).

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