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Ejnar Hertzsprung

1873 - 1967

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Ejnar Hertzsprung (Danish: [ˈɑjnɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsˌpʁɔŋ]; 8 October 1873 – 21 October 1967) was a Danish chemist and astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ejnar Hertzsprung has received more than 106,932 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Ejnar Hertzsprung is the 63rd most popular astronomer (up from 75th in 2019), the 97th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 111th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Danish Astronomer.

Ejnar Hertzsprung is most famous for his Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, which plots the luminosity of stars against their surface temperature.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Ejnar Hertzsprung ranks 63 out of 531. Before him are Girolamo Fracastoro, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Martin Ryle, Jacques Cassini, Vera Rubin, and Percival Lowell. After him are Sosigenes of Alexandria, Gerard Kuiper, Riccardo Giacconi, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, George Darwin, and Albert Marth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Ejnar Hertzsprung ranks 25. Before him are Julius Martov, Sándor Ferenczi, Max Reger, Francisco I. Madero, Feodor Chaliapin, and Pavlo Skoropadskyi. After him are Max Reinhardt, Christian Rakovsky, Kyösti Kallio, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Alice Guy-Blaché, and Ivanoe Bonomi. Among people deceased in 1967, Ejnar Hertzsprung ranks 32. Before him are Casimir Funk, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Jayne Mansfield, Otis Redding, Ossip Zadkine, and Norman Angell. After him are Héctor Scarone, Robert van Gulik, Shigeru Yoshida, Totò, Violeta Parra, and G. W. Pabst.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Ejnar Hertzsprung ranks 97 out of 893. Before him are Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891), Christopher I of Denmark (1219), Princess Thyra of Denmark (1853), Eric II of Denmark (1090), Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (1900), and Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (1788). After him are Sophia Magdalena of Denmark (1746), Prince George of Denmark (1653), Georg Brandes (1842), Otto Jespersen (1860), Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (1753), and Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (1878).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Denmark

Among astronomers born in Denmark, Ejnar Hertzsprung ranks 2. Before him are Ole Rømer (1644). After him are John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852), Peter Andreas Hansen (1795), Christen Sørensen Longomontanus (1562), Richard Martin West (1941), Holger Thiele (1878), and Anja Cetti Andersen (1965).

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