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Erika Böhm-Vitense

1923 - 2017

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Erika Helga Ruth Böhm-Vitense (June 3, 1923 – January 21, 2017) was a German-born American astrophysicist known for her work on Cepheid variables and convection in stellar atmospheres. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erika Böhm-Vitense has received more than 14,765 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Erika Böhm-Vitense is the 522nd most popular astronomer, the 5,283rd most popular biography from Germany and the 75th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Erika Böhm-Vitense ranks 522 out of 644. Before her are Hans-Emil Schuster, Agnes Mary Clerke, Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov, Minoru Honda, María Teresa Ruiz, and John N. Bahcall. After her are Korado Korlević, Okuro Oikawa, Roy A. Tucker, Ľudmila Pajdušáková, William Christie, and Edward S. Holden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Erika Böhm-Vitense ranks 413. Before her are Doc Watson, James Stockdale, Vic Seixas, Isaac Schwartz, Alex Hannum, and Romolo Catasta. After her are John M. Allegro, Aage Larsen, Ned Rorem, Inge Keller, Óscar González, and Ram Jethmalani. Among people deceased in 2017, Erika Böhm-Vitense ranks 472. Before her are John Nicholson, Walter Lassally, Cécile DeWitt-Morette, Molly Peters, William H. Keeler, and Roberta Peters. After her are Luis Garisto, Clare Hollingworth, Lukas Ammann, Inge Keller, Nadezhda Olizarenko, and Bano Qudsia.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erika Böhm-Vitense ranks 5,283 out of 7,253. Before her are Harry Schwarz (1924), Wolfgang Seguin (1945), Bernd Cullmann (1939), Liselott Linsenhoff (1927), Bernd Mayländer (1971), and Wilhelm Genazino (1943). After her are Sead Kolašinac (1993), Erwin Huber (1943), Christian Lindner (1979), Armin Schwarz (1963), Siegrun Siegl (1954), and Andreas Kupfer (1914).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Erika Böhm-Vitense ranks 75. Before her are Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), Heinrich Kreutz (1854), Arno Arthur Wachmann (1902), Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (1788), Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912), and Hans-Emil Schuster (1934). After her are Alfred Bohrmann (1904), Eva Grebel (1966), and Anna Frebel (1980).

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