1758 - 1840
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (; German: [ˈɔlbɐs]; 11 October 1758 – 2 March 1840) was a German physician and astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers has received more than 81,533 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers is the 26th most popular astronomer (up from 28th in 2019), the 419th most popular biography from Germany (down from 398th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Astronomer.
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers is most famous for his astronomical paradox, which states that the night sky should be infinitely bright because of the infinite number of stars in the universe.
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Among astronomers, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers ranks 26 out of 531. Before him are Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Robert Woodrow Wilson, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Charles Messier, Giuseppe Piazzi, and Johannes Hevelius. After him are Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Avempace, William Alfred Fowler, Johann Gottfried Galle, and Fred Hoyle.
1943 - Present
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 20
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 21
903 - 986
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 22
1730 - 1817
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 23
1746 - 1826
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 24
1611 - 1687
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 25
1758 - 1840
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 26
1380 - 1429
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 27
1711 - 1787
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 28
1080 - 1138
HPI: 66.58
Rank: 29
1911 - 1995
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 30
1812 - 1910
HPI: 66.27
Rank: 31
1915 - 2001
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 32
Among people born in 1758, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers ranks 5. Before him are Maximilien Robespierre, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, James Monroe, and André Masséna. After him are Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Emperor Go-Momozono, Kamehameha I, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, Franz Joseph Gall, Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy. Among people deceased in 1840, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers ranks 6. Before him are Niccolò Paganini, Caspar David Friedrich, Frederick William III of Prussia, Emperor Kōkaku, and Lucien Bonaparte. After him are Siméon Denis Poisson, Jacques MacDonald, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Maria Beatrice of Savoy, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, and Louis de Bonald.
1758 - 1794
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 1
1758 - 1805
HPI: 74.60
Rank: 2
1758 - 1831
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 3
1758 - 1817
HPI: 68.64
Rank: 4
1758 - 1840
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 5
1758 - 1806
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 6
1758 - 1779
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 7
1758 - 1819
HPI: 64.19
Rank: 8
1758 - 1836
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 9
1758 - 1828
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 10
1758 - 1794
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 11
1758 - 1838
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 12
1782 - 1840
HPI: 82.33
Rank: 1
1774 - 1840
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 2
1770 - 1840
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 3
1771 - 1840
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 4
1775 - 1840
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 5
1758 - 1840
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 6
1781 - 1840
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 7
1765 - 1840
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 8
1752 - 1840
HPI: 60.09
Rank: 9
1792 - 1840
HPI: 60.02
Rank: 10
1766 - 1840
HPI: 59.28
Rank: 11
1754 - 1840
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers ranks 419 out of 6,142. Before him are Erwin Panofsky (1892), Lothar Matthäus (1961), Friedrich Bessel (1784), Julius von Mayer (1814), Frederica of Hanover (1917), and Caroline of Baden (1776). After him are Hans Krebs (1898), Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864), Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928), Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170), Hans Fritzsche (1900), and Ernst Abbe (1840).
1892 - 1968
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 413
1961 - Present
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 414
1784 - 1846
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 415
1814 - 1878
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 416
1917 - 1981
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 417
1776 - 1841
HPI: 66.96
Rank: 418
1758 - 1840
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 419
1898 - 1945
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 420
1864 - 1918
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 421
1928 - 2007
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 422
1170 - 1220
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 423
1900 - 1953
HPI: 66.92
Rank: 424
1840 - 1905
HPI: 66.92
Rank: 425
Among astronomers born in Germany, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers ranks 3. Before him are Johannes Kepler (1571) and William Herschel (1738). After him are Johann Gottfried Galle (1812), Johann Bayer (1572), Caroline Herschel (1750), Wilhelm Schickard (1592), Simon Marius (1573), Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793), Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (1822), Max Wolf (1863), and Karl Ludwig Harding (1765).
1571 - 1630
HPI: 87.17
Rank: 1
1738 - 1822
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 2
1758 - 1840
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 3
1812 - 1910
HPI: 66.27
Rank: 4
1572 - 1625
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 5
1750 - 1848
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 6
1592 - 1635
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 7
1573 - 1625
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 8
1793 - 1864
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 9
1822 - 1875
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 10
1863 - 1932
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 11
1765 - 1834
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 12