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Klim Churyumov

1937 - 2016

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Klim Ivanovich Churyumov (Ukrainian: Клим Іванович Чурюмов; 19 February 1937 – 14 October 2016) was a Soviet and Ukrainian astronomer. He was the director of the Kyiv Planetarium, a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the International Astronomical Union, of the New York Academy of Sciences, the editor of the magazine "Our Skies" (Ukrainian: Наше Небо) in 2006–2009, the president of the Ukrainian Society of amateur astronomy and the author of books for children. In 1969, he discovered, with Svetlana Gerasimenko, the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko; on 12 November 2014, the Rosetta space mission landed its Philae spacecraft on its surface. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Klim Churyumov has received more than 56,561 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Klim Churyumov is the 254th most popular astronomer (up from 259th in 2019), the 424th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 421st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Klim Churyumov ranks 254 out of 644. Before him are Vesto Slipher, William Wallace Campbell, Svetlana Gerasimenko, Bengt Strömgren, Charles Wolf, and Laurent Cassegrain. After him are Joel Hastings Metcalf, Sandra Faber, George Ellery Hale, Catherine Wolfe Bruce, Nevil Maskelyne, and Fred Lawrence Whipple.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Klim Churyumov ranks 219. Before him are Barbara Jones, Édith Scob, Barbara Steele, Lluís Martínez Sistach, Tomas Venclova, and Tom Stoppard. After him are Miguel Trovoada, Peter Stein, Richard Bright, Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Harris Yulin, and Yuri Manin. Among people deceased in 2016, Klim Churyumov ranks 186. Before him are Lola Novaković, Sixto Durán Ballén, Mahasweta Devi, Christina Grimmie, Fazil Iskander, and Yūko Tsushima. After him are Jacques Hamel, Pierre Étaix, Halil İnalcık, Madeleine Lebeau, Željko Čajkovski, and Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Klim Churyumov ranks 424 out of 1,365. Before him are Leonid Kizim (1941), Vitaliy Masol (1928), Nonna Mordyukova (1925), Leonid Pasechnik (1970), Danylo Apostol (1654), and Ilya Kabakov (1933). After him are Joseph Schmidt (1904), Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880), Ingeborg of Kiev (1100), Grigory Yavlinsky (1952), Oleksandr Moroz (1944), and Anatoly Rybakov (1911).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Ukraine

Among astronomers born in Ukraine, Klim Churyumov ranks 3. Before him are Tamara Smirnova (1935), and Svetlana Gerasimenko (1945). After him are Otto Struve (1897), Iosif Shklovsky (1916), Viktor Knorre (1840), Grigory Shajn (1892), and Fyodor Bredikhin (1831).

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