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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 53,318 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Klim Churyumov is the 259th most popular astronomer (up from 293rd in 2019), the 424th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 435th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Ukrainian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Klim Churyumov ranks 259 out of 531. Before him are Giovanni Battista Donati, Alvan Graham Clark, Andrew Graham, Niccolò Zucchi, George Mary Searle, and Theodor von Oppolzer. After him are Bengt Strömgren, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, Sylvain Arend, David Gill, Franz Xaver von Zach, and Benjamin Apthorp Gould.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Klim Churyumov ranks 212. Before him are Guy Marchand, Jaime Lerner, Harri Holkeri, Giovanni Arrighi, María Kodama, and Gaston Roelants. After him are Glen A. Larson, Lluís Martínez Sistach, David Mumford, Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Francisco Pinto Balsemão, and Geki. Among people deceased in 2016, Klim Churyumov ranks 193. Before him are Qahhor Mahkamov, William H. McNeill, Alan Thicke, Željko Čajkovski, Vilmos Zsigmond, and Yang Jiang. After him are Ann Morgan Guilbert, Bernard Fox, Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Antonin Scalia, Frank Finlay, and Lars Gustafsson.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Klim Churyumov ranks 424 out of 1,083. Before him are Pinhas Lavon (1904), Mischa Elman (1891), Sydir Kovpak (1887), Alexander Trepov (1862), Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko (1842), and Yevhen Petrushevych (1863). After him are Alexander Potebnja (1835), Maksym Rylsky (1895), Leone Ginzburg (1909), Anatoly Alexandrov (1903), Yevhen Hrebinka (1812), and Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Ukraine

Among astronomers born in Ukraine, Klim Churyumov ranks 5. Before him are Otto Struve (1897), Svetlana Gerasimenko (1945), Tamara Smirnova (1935), and Iosif Shklovsky (1916). After him are Viktor Knorre (1840), Fyodor Bredikhin (1831), and Grigory Shajn (1892).

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