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Josep Comas i Solà

1868 - 1937

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Josep Comas i Solà (Catalan pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛp ˈkoməz i suˈla]; Barcelona 17 December 1868 – 2 December 1937) was a Spanish astronomer, of Catalan origin, discoverer of minor planets, comets, and double stars.He wrote his first astronomy notes at 10, and was only fifteen when he published an article in a French specialist magazine.He observed planets including Mars and Saturn, measuring the rotation period of the latter. He wrote some books popularizing astronomy, and was first president of the Spanish and American Astronomical Society (Spanish: Sociedad Astrónomica de España y América; S.A.D.E.Y.A.). He discovered the periodic comet 32P/Comas Solà, and co-discovered the non-periodic comet C/1925 F1 (Shajn-Comas Solà); he is also credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 11 asteroids during 1915–1930. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josep Comas i Solà has received more than 20,326 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Josep Comas i Solà is the 245th most popular astronomer (down from 227th in 2019), the 943rd most popular biography from Spain (down from 842nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Spanish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Josep Comas i Solà ranks 245 out of 531Before him are Johannes Schöner, Wilhelm von Biela, Iosif Shklovsky, Cleostratus, Freimut Börngen, and Nevil Maskelyne. After him are Fred Lawrence Whipple, William Cranch Bond, Seth Carlo Chandler, Hubert Reeves, Paul Wild, and Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Josep Comas i Solà ranks 106Before him are Hovhannes Kajaznuni, George Arliss, Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern, Alois Musil, Georgy Voronoy, and Hugo Eckener. After him are Ivan Regen, Max Slevogt, Vydūnas, Juventino Rosas, John Nance Garner, and Wilhelm Stekel. Among people deceased in 1937, Josep Comas i Solà ranks 90Before him are Philip de László, Alexander Shliapnikov, Adolf Erman, Alfred Abel, Nathan Birnbaum, and Yehuda Pen. After him are Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, Erkki Melartin, Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, Henri Lebasque, Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, and Renate Müller.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Josep Comas i Solà ranks 943 out of 2,932Before him are Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760), Arsenio Martínez Campos (1831), Eleanor of Arborea (1340), Joan Segarra (1927), Eduardo Dato (1856), and Cristóbal de Olid (1487). After him are Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo (1787), Gaius Caecilius Metellus Caprarius (-160), Miguel Cabanellas (1872), Rocío Jurado (1946), Turibius of Mogrovejo (1538), and Sancho Alfonso, 1st Count of Alburquerque (1342).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Spain

Among astronomers born in Spain, Josep Comas i Solà ranks 6Before him are Avempace (1080), Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (1029), Maslama al-Majriti (950), Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji (1200), and Antonio de Ulloa (1716).