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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 12,646 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann is the 211th most popular astronomer (down from 206th in 2019), the 2,552nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,400th in 2019) and the 39th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann ranks 211 out of 531Before him are Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, Guillaume Le Gentil, Edward L. G. Bowell, James W. Christy, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, and Timocharis. After him are Seth Barnes Nicholson, Sergey Belyavsky, Martin Schwarzschild, Alexis Bouvard, Oskar Backlund, and Svetlana Gerasimenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann ranks 77Before him are David Riazanov, Motobu Chōki, Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, Dadasaheb Phalke, Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, and Ada Negri. After him are Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Peter Struve, Ignacio Zuloaga, John Paine, Osachi Hamaguchi, and Enric Prat de la Riba. Among people deceased in 1964, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann ranks 73Before him are Julius Raab, Ben Hecht, Wanda Wasilewska, Rauf Orbay, Carl Van Vechten, and T. H. White. After him are Pierre Monteux, Otto Ciliax, Maithili Sharan Gupt, Firmin Lambot, Otto Schniewind, and Sofoklis Venizelos.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann ranks 2,552 out of 6,142Before him are Dieter Müller (1954), Louis II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1502), Erwin Jaenecke (1890), Nikolaus Federmann (1505), Friedrich von Schmidt (1825), and Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau (1869). After him are Hans Tilkowski (1935), Helmut Jahn (1940), Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt (1601), Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794), Gisela of Burgundy (950), and Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann ranks 39Before him are August Kopff (1882), Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745), Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794), Johannes Fabricius (1587), Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834), and Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780). After him are Martin Schwarzschild (1912), Johannes Schöner (1477), Wilhelm von Biela (1782), Freimut Börngen (1930), Maria Clara Eimmart (1676), and Karl Christian Bruhns (1830).