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Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann

1870 - 1964

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Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (25 March 1870 – 19 January 1964) was a German astronomer and a discoverer of 22 minor planets and 4 comets, who worked at AOP in Potsdam and at Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg. He was co-discoverer with Arno Arthur Wachmann of the periodic comets 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann, 31P/Schwassmann–Wachmann and 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann, and with Arno Arthur Wachmann and Leslie Peltier of the non-periodic comet C/1930 D1 (Peltier–Schwassmann–Wachmann). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann has received more than 17,479 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann is the 162nd most popular astronomer (up from 211th in 2019), the 1,897th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,549th in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann ranks 162 out of 644. Before him are Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, George Phillips Bond, John Russell Hind, Edward Walter Maunder, James Glaisher, and Franz Xaver von Zach. After him are Norman Lockyer, Nicole-Reine Lepaute, Williamina Fleming, Harlow Shapley, William Robert Brooks, and Luboš Kohoutek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann ranks 56. Before him are Michael Rostovtzeff, Ignacio Zuloaga, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria, Vítězslav Novák, and Alexandre Benois. After him are Oscar Straus, Florent Schmitt, Vladimir Purishkevich, Helge von Koch, Leopold Godowsky, and Guillaume Lekeu. Among people deceased in 1964, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann ranks 53. Before him are Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Mikhail Larionov, Bechara El Khoury, Tatyana Afanasyeva, Vladko Maček, and Heinz Jost. After him are Hinrich Lohse, Prince Axel of Denmark, Veit Harlan, Alan Ladd, Adib Shishakli, and Anna Vyrubova.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann ranks 1,897 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769), Friedrich Hossbach (1894), Dieter Schwarz (1939), Ernst Busch (1900), Heinrich Göbel (1818), and Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria (1235). After him are Lorenz Oken (1779), Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759), Johann Kirnberger (1721), Walter Stennes (1895), Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis (1860), and Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann ranks 30. Before him are Hermann Goldschmidt (1802), Arthur Auwers (1838), Hermann Carl Vogel (1841), Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670), Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921), and August Kopff (1882). After him are Tobias Mayer (1723), Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745), Andreas Cellarius (1596), Martin Schwarzschild (1912), Erasmus Reinhold (1511), and Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794).

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