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Gerard Kuiper

1905 - 1973

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Gerard Peter Kuiper ( KY-pər; born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper, Dutch: [ˈɣɛrɪt ˈpitər ˈkœypər]; 7 December 1905 – 23 December 1973) was a Dutch-American astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerard Kuiper has received more than 414,599 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Gerard Kuiper is the 46th most popular astronomer (up from 65th in 2019), the 89th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 117th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Dutch Astronomer.

Gerard Kuiper is most famous for proposing the existence of a belt of comet-like bodies beyond Neptune.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Gerard Kuiper ranks 46 out of 644. Before him are Giovanni Schiaparelli, Jan Oort, Sosigenes of Alexandria, Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, Jérôme Lalande, and Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli. After him are Ferdinand Verbiest, Vera Rubin, Clyde Tombaugh, Riccardo Giacconi, William Lassell, and Varāhamihira.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Gerard Kuiper ranks 25. Before him are Arthur Koestler, Marcel Lefebvre, Raymond Aron, Guillermo Stábile, Artem Mikoyan, and Emilio Segrè. After him are Władysław Gomułka, Raymond Cattell, Carl Gustav Hempel, Dalton Trumbo, Ulf von Euler, and Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Among people deceased in 1973, Gerard Kuiper ranks 38. Before him are Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Selman Waksman, Jacques Maritain, Karl Ziegler, Luis Carrero Blanco, and Walter Rudolf Hess. After him are Jean-Pierre Melville, Amílcar Cabral, François Cevert, Taha Hussein, A. S. Neill, and Lex Barker.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Gerard Kuiper ranks 89 out of 1,646. Before him are Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930), Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612), Willebrord Snellius (1580), Jan Oort (1900), Lucas van Leyden (1494), and Cornelis Drebbel (1572). After him are Gerard van Honthorst (1592), Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), Sophia of Hanover (1630), William IV, Prince of Orange (1711), Menno Simons (1496), and Isabelle de Charrière (1740).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Netherlands

Among astronomers born in Netherlands, Gerard Kuiper ranks 2. Before him are Jan Oort (1900). After him are Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692), Cornelis Johannes van Houten (1920), Tom Gehrels (1925), John Goodricke (1764), Antonie Pannekoek (1873), Peter van de Kamp (1901), Jacobus Kapteyn (1851), Adriaan Blaauw (1914), Walter Lewin (1936), and Michael van Langren (1598).

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