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Jane Luu

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Jane X. Luu (Vietnamese: Lưu Lệ Hằng; born July 1963) is a Vietnamese-American astronomer and defense systems engineer. She was awarded the Kavli Prize (shared with David C. Jewitt and Michael Brown) for 2012 "for discovering and characterizing the Kuiper Belt and its largest members, work that led to a major advance in the understanding of the history of our planetary system". Luu immigrated to the United States as a refugee in 1975, when the South Vietnamese government fell. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jane Luu has received more than 105,618 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Jane Luu is the 507th most popular astronomer (up from 526th in 2019), the 99th most popular biography from Vietnam (up from 100th in 2019) and the most popular Vietnamese Astronomer.

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  • 110k

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  • 52.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Jane Luu ranks 507 out of 644. Before her are Michel Giacobini, Matvey Gusev, Hisashi Kimura, Julie Vinter Hansen, Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker, and Bohdan Paczyński. After her are Ernest Esclangon, DeLisle Stewart, Kaoru Ikeya, Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, Edwin Foster Coddington, and Wilhelm Anderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Jane Luu ranks 364. Before her are Li Shufu, Guido Crosetto, Jed Brophy, Yasuharu Takanashi, Jake Weber, and Diosdado Cabello. After her are Kevin J. O'Connor, Florence Parly, Neil Burger, Ana Fidelia Quirot, Hiroaki Hirata, and Richard Garfield.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Jane Luu ranks 99 out of 136. Before her are Phạm Minh Mẫn (1934), Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn (1938), Ngô Bảo Châu (1972), Phạm Duy (1921), Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ (1908), and Dany Carrel (1932). After her are Yvon Petra (1916), Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân (1954), Hanoi Hannah (1931), Peter Nguyen Van Hung (1958), Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum (1905), and Philipp Rösler (1973).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Vietnam

Among astronomers born in Vietnam, Jane Luu ranks 1. 

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