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Kiichirō Furukawa

1929 - 2016

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Kiichirō Furukawa (Japanese: 古川 麒一郎, Hepburn: Furukawa Kiichirō, Kunrei: Hurukawa Kiitirô, 22 July 1929 – 29 June 2016) was a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets at the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kiichirō Furukawa has received more than 13,519 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Kiichirō Furukawa is the 536th most popular astronomer (down from 504th in 2019), the 1,553rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,437th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Kiichirō Furukawa ranks 536 out of 644. Before him are John Pond, Yoshisada Shimizu, Robert H. McNaught, Grove Karl Gilbert, Carlos Ulrrico Cesco, and Charles Augustus Young. After him are Ruby Payne-Scott, Seiji Ueda, Mary Proctor, Lawrence H. Aller, Andrew Ainslie Common, and Walter Frederick Gale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Kiichirō Furukawa ranks 475. Before him are Clyde Lovellette, Toimi Alatalo, Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, Benny Andersen, Jean-Denis Bredin, and Lyubov Kozyreva. After him are Boris Nikolov, LaVern Baker, Gheorghe Fiat, Michel Knuysen, Paolo Ferrari, and Basri Dirimlili. Among people deceased in 2016, Kiichirō Furukawa ranks 473. Before him are Robert Stigwood, Muriel Casals i Couturier, François Dupeyron, Florence Henderson, Gardnar Mulloy, and Axel Schandorff. After him are Franco Faggi, Ali Beratlıgil, Abu Omar al-Shishani, Viktor Zubkov, Raúl Sánchez, and Heinz Ulzheimer.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kiichirō Furukawa ranks 1,553 out of 6,245. Before him are Norihiro Yagi (1968), Musashi Mizushima (1964), Yoshihiro Akiyama (1975), Masahiro Ando (1972), Yuji Takada (1954), and Takehiro Tomiyasu (1998). After him are Yūki Kaji (1985), Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (1903), Richard T. Jones (1972), Yoshio Kato (1957), Koto Matsudaira (1903), and Mitsuo Ikeda (1935).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Kiichirō Furukawa ranks 13. Before him are Yuji Hyakutake (1950), Takao Kobayashi (1961), Hisashi Kimura (1870), Kaoru Ikeya (1943), Minoru Honda (1913), and Okuro Oikawa (1896). After him are Seiji Ueda (1952), Kazuro Watanabe (1955), Kin Endate (1960), Kenzo Suzuki (1950), Masayuki Yanai (1959), and Tomimaru Okuni (1931).

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