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Leo Anton Karl de Ball

1853 - 1916

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Leo Anton Karl de Ball (November 23, 1853 – December 12, 1916) was a German-Austrian astronomer. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center as "K. de Ball" for his (sole) asteroid discovery, but seems to be best known as Leo de Ball. He was born at Lobberich in the Rhineland, in the Kingdom of Prussia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leo Anton Karl de Ball has received more than 11,149 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Leo Anton Karl de Ball is the 405th most popular astronomer (down from 371st in 2019), the 4,105th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,578th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Leo Anton Karl de Ball ranks 405 out of 531. Before him are Hugo von Seeliger, Richard Schorr, Lyudmila Karachkina, Alfred Schmitt, Henry L. Giclas, and Michael E. Brown. After him are Horace W. Babcock, Friedrich Tietjen, Barnaba Oriani, Stéphane Javelle, Vincenzo Cerulli, and Albrecht Unsöld.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Leo Anton Karl de Ball ranks 81. Before him are Jules Lemaître, Mato Kósyk, Rudolf Kittel, Heinrich Kayser, Isidor Kaufmann, and Julia Beck. After him are Julian Fałat, Marc-Émile Ruchet, Charles Howard Hinton, Konstantin Stoilov, Maria Yermolova, and René Bazin. Among people deceased in 1916, Leo Anton Karl de Ball ranks 116. Before him are Charles Dawson, Germán Riesco, Sámuel Teleki, Antonin Mercié, Aeneas Mackintosh, and Maksim Kovalevsky. After him are Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Josiah Royce, Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Georgios Theotokis, Cleveland Abbe, and Daniel Oliver.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Leo Anton Karl de Ball ranks 4,105 out of 6,142. Before him are Elfriede Kaun (1914), Andreas Scholl (1967), Magdalena Sibylla of Holstein-Gottorp (1631), Alfred Landé (1888), Ernst Hartert (1859), and Johann Gottfried Seume (1763). After him are Friedrich Tietjen (1834), Friedrich Sixt von Armin (1851), Ludwig Thoma (1867), Peter Altmaier (1958), Bernd Förster (1956), and Ulf Timmermann (1962).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Leo Anton Karl de Ball ranks 62. Before him are Otto Heckmann (1901), Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), Gottfried Kirch (1639), Ludwig Biermann (1907), Lutz D. Schmadel (1942), and Richard Schorr (1867). After him are Friedrich Tietjen (1834), Albrecht Unsöld (1905), Alfred Bohrmann (1904), Hans-Emil Schuster (1934), Arno Arthur Wachmann (1902), and Cuno Hoffmeister (1892).

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