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Lipót Schulhof

1847 - 1921

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Lipót Schulhof (12 March 1847 in Baja – October 1921 in Paris; Hungarian: Schulhof Lipót; German: Leopold Schulhof or Schulhoff; French: Léopold Schulhof) was a Hungarian-Jewish astronomer, born in the Austrian Empire, who first worked at the Vienna Observatory and later spent most of his time at the Paris Observatory, observing comets and asteroids.He provided a prediction for the 1893 return of comet 15P/Finlay, discovered the main-belt asteroid 147 Protogeneia in 1875, and was awarded the Lalande Prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 1893. Schulhof won the Lalande Prize again in 1920 for his calculation, assisted by Joseph Bossert, of the orbit of the periodic comet 12P/Pons–Brooks, discovered in 1812 by Pons.Schulhof calculated the orbits of many asteroids and comets, taking perturbative interactions into account. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lipót Schulhof has received more than 9,785 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Lipót Schulhof is the 486th most popular astronomer (down from 456th in 2019).

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  • 46.20

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Lipót Schulhof has had the most page views in the with 1,108 views, followed by Low Saxon (560), and Chinese (528). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (133.33%), Low Saxon (60.92%), and Armenian (39.63%)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Lipót Schulhof ranks 486 out of 644. Before him are Arno Arthur Wachmann, Hiroki Kosai, Barnaba Oriani, William Henry Smyth, Karl Ludwig Littrow, and Louise du Pierry. After him are Robert Julius Trumpler, Fernand Rigaux, Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, Patrick Moore, Carlos Torres, and Ernest Leonard Johnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Lipót Schulhof ranks 91. Before him are Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, Eduardo López de Romaña, Giacomo Bresadola, Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, František Křižík, and Vilma Hugonnai. After him are Dimitar Grekov, Solomon Schechter, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Wilhelmina Drucker, Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, and Morton Betts. Among people deceased in 1921, Lipót Schulhof ranks 116. Before him are Jean Aicard, Nino Martoglio, Ludwig Thoma, James H. Johnson, Abbott Handerson Thayer, and Eduardo Acevedo Díaz. After him are William Friese-Greene, Isak Saba, Philander C. Knox, Julius von Hann, Justiniano Borgoño, and Emily Davies.

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