1870 - 1943
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, Hisashi Kimura ranks 498 out of 531. Before 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.
1892 - 1968
HPI: 43.00
Rank: 492
1858 - 1944
HPI: 42.98
Rank: 493
1912 - 1954
HPI: 42.92
Rank: 494
1929 - Present
HPI: 42.91
Rank: 495
1960 - Present
HPI: 42.81
Rank: 496
1951 - 2021
HPI: 42.73
Rank: 497
1870 - 1943
HPI: 42.64
Rank: 498
1950 - 1987
HPI: 42.48
Rank: 499
1905 - 1993
HPI: 42.36
Rank: 500
1956 - Present
HPI: 42.32
Rank: 501
1933 - Present
HPI: 42.31
Rank: 502
1952 - Present
HPI: 42.15
Rank: 503
1929 - 2016
HPI: 42.14
Rank: 504
Among people born in 1870, Hisashi Kimura ranks 143. Before 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 187. Before 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.
1870 - 1951
HPI: 44.58
Rank: 137
1870 - 1941
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 138
1870 - 1937
HPI: 44.49
Rank: 139
1870 - 1939
HPI: 44.37
Rank: 140
1870 - 1957
HPI: 43.60
Rank: 141
1870 - 1912
HPI: 43.60
Rank: 142
1870 - 1943
HPI: 42.64
Rank: 143
1870 - 1922
HPI: 42.01
Rank: 144
1870 - 1938
HPI: 41.15
Rank: 145
1870 - 1922
HPI: 40.50
Rank: 146
1907 - 1943
HPI: 43.26
Rank: 181
1873 - 1943
HPI: 43.17
Rank: 182
1903 - 1943
HPI: 43.05
Rank: 183
1864 - 1943
HPI: 42.95
Rank: 184
1899 - 1943
HPI: 42.80
Rank: 185
1899 - 1943
HPI: 42.67
Rank: 186
1870 - 1943
HPI: 42.64
Rank: 187
1906 - 1943
HPI: 42.58
Rank: 188
1890 - 1943
HPI: 42.58
Rank: 189
1901 - 1943
HPI: 42.52
Rank: 190
1863 - 1943
HPI: 42.26
Rank: 191
1878 - 1943
HPI: 42.04
Rank: 192
1879 - 1943
HPI: 41.86
Rank: 193
Among people born in Japan, Hisashi Kimura ranks 1,401 out of 6,048. Before 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).
1970 - Present
HPI: 42.75
Rank: 1,395
1954 - Present
HPI: 42.75
Rank: 1,396
1966 - Present
HPI: 42.74
Rank: 1,397
1974 - Present
HPI: 42.73
Rank: 1,398
1970 - Present
HPI: 42.72
Rank: 1,399
1998 - Present
HPI: 42.69
Rank: 1,400
1870 - 1943
HPI: 42.64
Rank: 1,401
1989 - Present
HPI: 42.62
Rank: 1,402
1953 - Present
HPI: 42.61
Rank: 1,403
1958 - Present
HPI: 42.61
Rank: 1,404
1917 - 2005
HPI: 42.61
Rank: 1,405
1961 - Present
HPI: 42.59
Rank: 1,406
1961 - Present
HPI: 42.58
Rank: 1,407
Among astronomers born in Japan, Hisashi Kimura ranks 6. Before 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).
1874 - 1943
HPI: 47.31
Rank: 1
1930 - Present
HPI: 47.14
Rank: 2
1920 - 2010
HPI: 45.81
Rank: 3
1947 - 2012
HPI: 45.13
Rank: 4
1950 - 2002
HPI: 43.67
Rank: 5
1870 - 1943
HPI: 42.64
Rank: 6
1933 - Present
HPI: 42.31
Rank: 7
1952 - Present
HPI: 42.15
Rank: 8
1929 - 2016
HPI: 42.14
Rank: 9
1896 - 1970
HPI: 41.99
Rank: 10
1953 - Present
HPI: 41.66
Rank: 11
1961 - Present
HPI: 41.46
Rank: 12