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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 12,341 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Leo Anton Karl de Ball is the 425th most popular astronomer (down from 405th in 2019), the 4,544th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,092nd in 2019) and the 64th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Leo Anton Karl de Ball ranks 425 out of 644. Before him are Frederik Kaiser, Aristarkh Belopolsky, Philibert Jacques Melotte, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, Stéphane Javelle, and William de Wiveleslie Abney. After him are Gustav Spörer, Adalbert Krueger, Joel Stebbins, Johann Gottfried Köhler, Fernand Courty, and Milorad B. Protić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Leo Anton Karl de Ball ranks 85. Before him are Maria Wiik, Marc-Émile Ruchet, Dmitry Sipyagin, Julian Fałat, Evgraf Fedorov, and Hamoud bin Mohammed of Zanzibar. After him are Rudolf Kittel, Mato Kósyk, Konstantin Stoilov, René Bazin, Emilio Aceval, and Gertrud Adelborg. Among people deceased in 1916, Leo Anton Karl de Ball ranks 124. Before him are Clements Markham, Rik Wouters, Georgios Theotokis, William Merritt Chase, Sámuel Teleki, and Paul von Plehwe. After him are Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Germán Riesco, Maksim Kovalevsky, Adolph Frank, Charles Booth, and Alexander Voeikov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Leo Anton Karl de Ball ranks 4,544 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau (1837), Leonard Nelson (1882), Natja Brunckhorst (1966), Saul Rubinek (1948), Carl Locher (1851), and Harry Rosenbusch (1836). After him are Gustav Spörer (1822), Adolph Strecker (1822), Heinrich Held (1868), Klaus Ludwig (1949), Leon Goretzka (1995), and Michael Skibbe (1965).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Leo Anton Karl de Ball ranks 64. Before him are Julius Schiller (1580), Friedrich Tietjen (1834), Richard Schorr (1867), Ludwig Biermann (1907), Otto Heckmann (1901), and Lutz D. Schmadel (1942). After him are Gustav Spörer (1822), Cuno Hoffmeister (1892), Gottfried Kirch (1639), Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), and Heinrich Kreutz (1854).

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