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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 12,487 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Kiichirō Furukawa is the 504th most popular astronomer (down from 447th in 2019), the 1,440th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,162nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Kiichirō Furukawa ranks 504 out of 531Before him are Hisashi Kimura, Marc Aaronson, Helen Sawyer Hogg, Robert H. McNaught, Hiroki Kosai, and Seiji Ueda. After him are Luciano Tesi, Adriaan van Maanen, David C. Jewitt, Okuro Oikawa, Pavel Shternberg, and Hiroshi Kaneda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Kiichirō Furukawa ranks 431Before him are Ali Mirzaei, Nirmala Deshpande, Clyde Lovellette, Wolfgang Peters, Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, and Charlotte Froese Fischer. After him are Vivien Merchant, Desmond Hoyte, Boris Nikolov, LaVern Baker, Pete George, and Bhanu Athaiya. Among people deceased in 2016, Kiichirō Furukawa ranks 441Before him are Clyde Lovellette, Jean-Marie Doré, Aki Schmidt, Raúl Sánchez, Rod Temperton, and Stephen Keshi. After him are Francisco Flores Pérez, Klaus Siebert, William Schallert, Gunnel Vallquist, Anatoli Isayev, and Erwin Hahn.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kiichirō Furukawa ranks 1,440 out of 6,048Before him are Shun Oguri (1982), Kazuo Ozaki (1960), Tomomi Inada (1959), Atsushi Uchiyama (1959), Hirokazu Tanaka (1957), and Seiji Ueda (1952). After him are Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (1903), Yuichi Nishimura (1972), Kyoko Kuroda (1969), Koji Tanaka (1955), Kenichi Suzumura (1974), and Takao Kawaguchi (1950).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Kiichirō Furukawa ranks 9Before him are Chushiro Hayashi (1920), Takeshi Urata (1947), Yuji Hyakutake (1950), Hisashi Kimura (1870), Hiroki Kosai (1933), and Seiji Ueda (1952). After him are Okuro Oikawa (1896), Hiroshi Kaneda (1953), Takao Kobayashi (1961), Kenzo Suzuki (1950), Kin Endate (1960), and Kazuro Watanabe (1955).