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Ernest Leonard Johnson

1891 - 1977

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Ernest Leonard Johnson (1891–1977) was a South African astronomer and a former staff member of the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is known for the discovery of 18 asteroids between 1946–1951, as well as several comets. On 25 August 1949, he discovered 48P/Johnson, a periodic comet expected to pass no closer than 1.2 to 1.3 AU from our planet in 2025. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernest Leonard Johnson has received more than 11,898 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Ernest Leonard Johnson is the 473rd most popular astronomer (down from 346th in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 80th in 2019) and the most popular South African Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Ernest Leonard Johnson ranks 473 out of 531Before him are Royal Harwood Frost, Edward S. Holden, DeLisle Stewart, Fyodor Bredikhin, Bohdan Paczyński, and Robert Emden. After him are Matvey Gusev, Aristarkh Belopolsky, Hans-Emil Schuster, Charles Augustus Young, Kaoru Ikeya, and María Teresa Ruiz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Ernest Leonard Johnson ranks 221Before him are Boris Lavrenyov, Erik Almlöf, Isak Abrahamsen, Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, Nella Larsen, and Katherine MacDonald. After him are Ellen Wilkinson, Gustaf Dyrssen, Erik Lindahl, Willy Birgel, Lorenzo Mangiante, and August Gailit. Among people deceased in 1977, Ernest Leonard Johnson ranks 196Before him are Gérard Delbeke, Jean Taris, Bukka White, Carlo Biotti, Germano Boettcher Sobrinho, and Helen Ferguson. After him are Hans Pulver, Alan Reed, Andy Devine, Philibert Smellinckx, Richard Brauer, and Américo Tesoriere.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Ernest Leonard Johnson ranks 120 out of 374Before him are Ted Grant (1913), George F. R. Ellis (1939), Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (1949), Stanley Mandelstam (1928), Ted Moore (1914), and Tom Naudé (1889). After him are Elisabeth Eybers (1915), Harold Kitson (1874), Tony Maggs (1937), Corrie Sanders (1966), Janet Suzman (1939), and Eddie Kramer (1942).

Among ASTRONOMERS In South Africa

Among astronomers born in South Africa, Ernest Leonard Johnson ranks 1