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ASTRONOMER

Freimut Börngen

1930 - 2021

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Freimut Börngen (German: [ˈfʁaɪmuːt ˈbœʁŋən]; 17 October 1930 – 19 June 2021) was a German astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets. A few sources give his first name wrongly as "Freimuth". The Minor Planet Center credits him as F. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Freimut Börngen has received more than 25,981 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Freimut Börngen is the 243rd most popular astronomer (up from 292nd in 2019), the 2,931st most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,126th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Freimut Börngen ranks 243 out of 531Before him are Halton Arp, James Edward Keeler, Johannes Schöner, Wilhelm von Biela, Iosif Shklovsky, and Cleostratus. After him are Nevil Maskelyne, Josep Comas i Solà, Fred Lawrence Whipple, William Cranch Bond, Seth Carlo Chandler, and Hubert Reeves.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Freimut Börngen ranks 229Before him are Gérard Blain, Georges Descrières, John Astin, Jim Hall, Yuri Artyukhin, and José María Zárraga. After him are Thomas Sowell, Svatopluk Pluskal, Gary Snyder, Miodrag Bulatović, Borislav Pekić, and Vilmos Zsigmond. Among people deceased in 2021, Freimut Börngen ranks 274Before him are James Michael Tyler, Anne Buydens, Juan Rodríguez Vega, Francesco Morini, Gianluigi Saccaro, and Sylvano Bussotti. After him are Paddy Moloney, Sergei Solovyov, Jean-Marc Vallée, Fayez Tarawneh, Orlando Martínez, and Pavol Molnár.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Freimut Börngen ranks 2,931 out of 6,142Before him are Alfred Abel (1879), Werner Goldberg (1919), Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723), Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony (1617), Reiner Klimke (1936), and Lorenz Heister (1683). After him are Otto Pfister (1937), Karl Krumbacher (1856), Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1769), Paul Ben-Haim (1897), Alfred Schwarzmann (1912), and Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Freimut Börngen ranks 43Before him are Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834), Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780), Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (1870), Martin Schwarzschild (1912), Johannes Schöner (1477), and Wilhelm von Biela (1782). After him are Maria Clara Eimmart (1676), Karl Christian Bruhns (1830), Otto Lesser (1830), Franz Kaiser (1891), Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765), and Christine Kirch (1697).