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Eugène Joseph Delporte

1882 - 1955

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Eugène Joseph Delporte (10 January 1882 – 19 October 1955) was a Belgian astronomer born in Genappe. He discovered a total of sixty-six asteroids. Notable discoveries include 1221 Amor (which lent its name to the Amor asteroids) and the Apollo asteroid 2101 Adonis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugène Joseph Delporte has received more than 40,849 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Eugène Joseph Delporte is the 149th most popular astronomer (up from 150th in 2019), the 211th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 228th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Belgian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Eugène Joseph Delporte ranks 149 out of 644. Before him are Johann Daniel Titius, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Mariam al-Asturlabi, and George Biddell Airy. After him are Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, Guillaume Bigourdan, Antonie Pannekoek, Abu Maʿshar, and Andrea M. Ghez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Eugène Joseph Delporte ranks 82. Before him are Harold Lowe, Natalia Sedova, Feng Yuxiang, Ernst von Weizsäcker, August Kopff, and Yoshijirō Umezu. After him are William Halsey Jr., Princess Louise of Orléans, Sylvia Pankhurst, Artur Schnabel, John Barrymore, and David Burliuk. Among people deceased in 1955, Eugène Joseph Delporte ranks 46. Before him are Theda Bara, Henri Delaunay, Emmett Till, Olga Khokhlova, Otto Braun, and Nicolas de Staël. After him are Archie Hahn, Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein, Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria, Manuel Ávila Camacho, Pierre Levegh, and Max Pechstein.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Eugène Joseph Delporte ranks 211 out of 1,190. Before him are Alexander Agricola (1446), Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (1338), Melchior Broederlam (1355), Ambrosius Bosschaert (1573), Henry II, Duke of Brabant (1207), and Roger De Vlaeminck (1947). After him are Théo van Rysselberghe (1862), Begga (615), Johannes Tinctoris (1435), Henri de Baillet-Latour (1876), Adriaen van Utrecht (1599), and Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Belgium

Among astronomers born in Belgium, Eugène Joseph Delporte ranks 5. Before him are Adolphe Quetelet (1796), Ferdinand Verbiest (1623), Petrus Plancius (1552), and Eric Walter Elst (1936). After him are Henri Debehogne (1928), Philippe van Lansberge (1561), Marcel Minnaert (1893), and George Van Biesbroeck (1880).

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