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Ernst Öpik

1893 - 1985

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Ernst Julius Öpik (22 October [O.S. 10 October] 1893 – 10 September 1985) was an Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist who spent the second half of his career (1948–1981) at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Öpik has received more than 69,599 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Ernst Öpik is the 107th most popular astronomer (up from 135th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Estonia (up from 28th in 2019) and the most popular Estonian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Ernst Öpik ranks 107 out of 531. Before him are James Van Allen, Mary Somerville, Reinhard Genzel, Frank Drake, Edward Charles Pickering, and George Biddell Airy. After him are Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Heinrich Schwabe, Arthur Auwers, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, and E. M. Antoniadi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Ernst Öpik ranks 61. Before him are Roy O. Disney, Wallace Fard Muhammad, Nicholas J. Spykman, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Battista Farina, and Hans Scharoun. After him are Dorothy Parker, Ivan Panfilov, Edsel Ford, Carl Værnet, Dragiša Cvetković, and Gillis Grafström. Among people deceased in 1985, Ernst Öpik ranks 40. Before him are Macfarlane Burnet, The Singing Nun, Tage Erlander, Méret Oppenheim, Tjalling Koopmans, and André Kertész. After him are Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Alexander Pokryshkin, Kirill Moskalenko, Cus D'Amato, Jean-Marie Loret, and Kim Yong-sik.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Ernst Öpik ranks 23 out of 310. Before him are Felix Kersten (1898), Adolf von Harnack (1851), Thomas Johann Seebeck (1770), Alar Karis (1958), Jakob von Uexküll (1864), and Kersti Kaljulaid (1969). After him are Michael Sittow (1459), Otto von Kotzebue (1787), Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622), Alexander Gorchakov (1798), Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803), and Neeme Järvi (1937).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Estonia

Among astronomers born in Estonia, Ernst Öpik ranks 1. After him are Otto Wilhelm von Struve (1819).

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