ASTRONOMER

Eugene Merle Shoemaker

1928 - 1997

Eugene Merle Shoemaker

Eugene Merle (Gene) Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997) was an American geologist and one of the founders of the field of planetary science. He co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and David H. Levy. This comet hit Jupiter in July 1994: the impact was televised around the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugene Merle Shoemaker has received more than 337,777 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia making him the 98th most popular astronomer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Eugene Merle Shoemaker ranks 99 out of 495. Before him are David Fabricius, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Clyde Tombaugh, Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, Petrus Plancius, and Karl Ludwig Hencke. After him are Heinrich Schwabe, E. M. Antoniadi, Abu Hanifa Dinawari, William Huggins, Walter Sydney Adams, and James Van Allen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Eugene Merle Shoemaker ranks 95. Before him are James Randi, Sol LeWitt, Edward Albee, Pierre Mauroy, Federico Bahamontes, and Takeshi Inoue. After him are Bo Diddley, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Gustav Leonhardt, Cy Twombly, Malcolm Glazer, and Daniel Nathans. Among people deceased in 1997, Eugene Merle Shoemaker ranks 61. Before him are Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, Narciso Yepes, Clyde Tombaugh, Fela Kuti, Marco Ferreri, and Miguel Najdorf. After him are Louis, Prince Napoléon, André Franquin, Otto Ernst Remer, Yuri Nikulin, Georg Solti, and Roland Topor.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eugene Merle Shoemaker ranks 1,461 out of 12,171. Before him are Beyoncé (1981), Elmer Bernstein (1922), Martha Gellhorn (1908), George Armitage Miller (1920), Clark L. Hull (1884), and Sidney Bechet (1897). After him are Caroline Kennedy (1957), John Turturro (1957), Richard Serra (1939), Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840), Wilbur Scoville (1865), and Dennis Quaid (1954).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Eugene Merle Shoemaker ranks 17. Before him are Edward Emerson Barnard (1857), Vera Rubin (1928), Lewis A. Swift (1820), Henry Norris Russell (1877), Russell Alan Hulse (1950), and Clyde Tombaugh (1906). After him are James Van Allen (1914), Frank Drake (1930), Edward Charles Pickering (1846), George Phillips Bond (1825), Harlow Shapley (1885), and William Henry Pickering (1858).

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