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ASTRONOMER

Hisashi Kimura

1870 - 1943

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Hisashi Kimura (木村 栄, Kimura Hisashi, October 4, 1870 – September 26, 1943) was a Japanese astronomer originally from Kanazawa, Ishikawa.He devoted his career to the study and measurement of variation in latitude, building upon the work of Seth Carlo Chandler, who discovered the Chandler wobble. In 1899, he became the first director of the International Latitude Observatory at Mizusawa, Japan.He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1936. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hisashi Kimura has received more than 15,848 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Hisashi Kimura is the 498th most popular astronomer (down from 466th in 2019), the 1,401st most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,232nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Hisashi Kimura ranks 498 out of 531Before him are Cuno Hoffmeister, Mary Adela Blagg, Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, Irwin I. Shapiro, David L. Rabinowitz, and Roy A. Tucker. After him are Marc Aaronson, Helen Sawyer Hogg, Robert H. McNaught, Hiroki Kosai, Seiji Ueda, and Kiichirō Furukawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Hisashi Kimura ranks 143Before him are Jacques Cariou, Verner Järvinen, Harry Vardon, Bautista Saavedra, James M. Cox, and Henri Bouckaert. After him are Liberato Marcial Rojas, Benjamin N. Cardozo, and Erskine Childers. Among people deceased in 1943, Hisashi Kimura ranks 187Before him are Vladimirs Petrovs, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen, Helena Nordheim, Emil Kellenberger, Ladislav Vácha, and Frits Kuipers. After him are Anna Dresden-Polak, Georges Tainturier, George Moorhouse, Reginald McKenna, Charles Tate Regan, and Frank Greer.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hisashi Kimura ranks 1,401 out of 6,048Before him are Tetsuya Nomura (1970), Masaaki Suzuki (1954), Michiko Matsuda (1966), Noriaki Sugiyama (1974), Lynn Okamoto (1970), and Takehiro Tomiyasu (1998). After him are Takeru Satoh (1989), Hiroyuki Usui (1953), Hiromi Hara (1958), Tetsuo Hamuro (1917), Hiro Matsushita (1961), and Keiko Matsui (1961).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Hisashi Kimura ranks 6Before him are Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874), Tsutomu Seki (1930), Chushiro Hayashi (1920), Takeshi Urata (1947), and Yuji Hyakutake (1950). After him are Hiroki Kosai (1933), Seiji Ueda (1952), Kiichirō Furukawa (1929), Okuro Oikawa (1896), Hiroshi Kaneda (1953), and Takao Kobayashi (1961).