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Edwin Ernest Salpeter

1924 - 2008

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Edwin Ernest Salpeter (3 December 1924 – 26 November 2008,) was an Austrian–Australian–American astrophysicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin Ernest Salpeter has received more than 43,514 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin Ernest Salpeter is the 279th most popular astronomer (up from 309th in 2019), the 622nd most popular biography from Austria (up from 651st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Edwin Ernest Salpeter ranks 279 out of 531Before him are Charles Wolf, Grigory Neujmin, Robert T. A. Innes, Maria Clara Eimmart, Karl Christian Bruhns, and Mashallah ibn Athari. After him are Jérôme Eugène Coggia, Liisi Oterma, Heikki A. Alikoski, John Machin, Frank Watson Dyson, and André-Louis Danjon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Edwin Ernest Salpeter ranks 207Before him are Mutesa II of Buganda, John Hansen, Girija Prasad Koirala, George Segal, Ramón Castro Ruz, and Juan Carlos González. After him are Wiel Coerver, Raoul Coutard, Eduardo Paolozzi, Yasuzo Masumura, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, and Rainer Barzel. Among people deceased in 2008, Edwin Ernest Salpeter ranks 149Before him are Stan Winston, Grigory Romanov, John List, David Foster Wallace, Ahmed al-Mirghani, and Boris Yefimov. After him are Mikel Laboa, Fujio Akatsuka, Edna Parker, Emmanuel Sanon, Võ Văn Kiệt, and Choi Jin-sil.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Edwin Ernest Salpeter ranks 622 out of 1,237Before him are Anton von Schmerling (1805), Otto Muehl (1925), Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1881), Archduchess Rosa of Austria (1906), Heinz von Foerster (1911), and Christopher Alexander (1936). After him are Otto Ender (1875), Viktor Klima (1947), Karl Koller (1929), Hans Hermann Groër (1919), Toni Polster (1964), and Karl Nehammer (1972).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Austria

Among astronomers born in Austria, Edwin Ernest Salpeter ranks 2Before him are Thomas Gold (1920). After him are Maurice Loewy (1833).