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Hans-Emil Schuster

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Hans-Emil Schuster (born 19 September 1934 in Hamburg) is a German astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets, who retired in October 1991. He worked at Hamburg Observatory at Bergedorf and European Southern Observatory (ESO), and was former acting director of La Silla Observatory. From 1982 he was married to Rosemarie Schuster née von Holt (28 March 1935 – 18 September 2006) He discovered periodic comet 106P/Schuster. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans-Emil Schuster has received more than 17,466 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Hans-Emil Schuster is the 516th most popular astronomer (down from 476th in 2019), the 5,173rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,464th in 2019) and the 74th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Hans-Emil Schuster ranks 516 out of 644Before him are Kaoru Ikeya, Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, Edwin Foster Coddington, Wilhelm Anderson, John Dobson, and John Broughton. After him are Agnes Mary Clerke, Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov, Minoru Honda, María Teresa Ruiz, John N. Bahcall, and Erika Böhm-Vitense.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Hans-Emil Schuster ranks 446Before him are Werner Leimgruber, Cedar Walton, Hilla Limann, Pierre Joxe, Alberto Bevilacqua, and Ken Matthews. After him are Diana Der Hovanessian, Ulrich Plenzdorf, Fernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem, Tammy Grimes, Tamara Manina, and King Curtis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans-Emil Schuster ranks 5,173 out of 7,253Before him are Frank Auerbach (1931), Bernard Knubel (1872), Chris Gueffroy (1968), Albert Zürner (1890), Fritz Riess (1922), and Norbert Walter-Borjans (1952). After him are Willy Ley (1906), Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (1749), Ludwig von Brenner (1833), Heinz Hornig (1937), Richard Brauer (1901), and Christian Streich (1965).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Hans-Emil Schuster ranks 74Before him are Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), Heinrich Kreutz (1854), Arno Arthur Wachmann (1902), Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (1788), and Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912). After him are Erika Böhm-Vitense (1923), Alfred Bohrmann (1904), Eva Grebel (1966), and Anna Frebel (1980).