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ASTRONOMER

Johann Palisa

1848 - 1925

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Johann Palisa (6 December 1848 – 2 May 1925) was an Austrian astronomer, born in Troppau, Austrian Silesia, now Czech Republic. He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids, discovering 122 in all, from 136 Austria in 1874 to 1073 Gellivara in 1923. Some of his notable discoveries include 153 Hilda, 216 Kleopatra, 243 Ida, 253 Mathilde, 324 Bamberga, and the near-Earth asteroid 719 Albert. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Palisa has received more than 62,072 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Palisa is the 50th most popular astronomer (down from 47th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Czechia (down from 75th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Astronomer.

Johann Palisa is most famous for his discovery of the periodic table of chemical elements.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Johann Palisa ranks 50 out of 531Before him are Henrietta Swan Leavitt, James Bradley, Asaph Hall, Fritz Zwicky, Clyde Tombaugh, and Ferdinand Verbiest. After him are Jérôme Lalande, Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, Pieter van Musschenbroek, Varāhamihira, John Flamsteed, and Pierre Méchain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Johann Palisa ranks 16Before him are Albert I, Prince of Monaco, Hugo de Vries, Tōgō Heihachirō, Robert I, Duke of Parma, Arthur Balfour, and Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll. After him are Viktor Vasnetsov, Wilhelm Windelband, Wyatt Earp, Aleksey Kuropatkin, Stepan Makarov, and Carl Wernicke. Among people deceased in 1925, Johann Palisa ranks 21Before him are Camille Flammarion, Maria Sophie of Bavaria, Percy Fawcett, Wong Fei-hung, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, and Władysław Reymont. After him are Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Vincenzo Peruggia, Félix Vallotton, Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria, and John Singer Sargent.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Johann Palisa ranks 81 out of 973Before him are Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679), Jaroslav Seifert (1901), Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896), Johann Stamitz (1717), Ludmila of Bohemia (860), and Bohuslav Martinů (1890). After him are Jiří Menzel (1938), Julius Fučík (1903), Maria Christina of Austria (1858), Josef Hoffmann (1870), Eugen Böhm von Bawerk (1851), and Ottokar I of Bohemia (1155).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Czechia

Among astronomers born in Czechia, Johann Palisa ranks 1After him are Antonín Mrkos (1918), Theodor von Oppolzer (1841), Tadeáš Hájek (1525), Luboš Kohoutek (1935), Joseph Johann von Littrow (1781), Jana Tichá (1965), Miloš Tichý (1966), Lenka Kotková (1973), and Zdeněk Moravec (1968).