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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lipót Schulhof has received more than 9,927 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Lipót Schulhof is the 456th most popular astronomer (down from 416th in 2019).

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Lipót Schulhof ranks 456 out of 531. Before him are Harold D. Babcock, Takeshi Urata, Stephen P. Synnott, William Frederick Denning, Benjamin Banneker, and Guillermo Haro. After him are Margaret Lindsay Huggins, John Dobson, Mary Watson Whitney, David Todd Wilkinson, William Robert Brooks, and Margaret Geller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Lipót Schulhof ranks 83. Before him are Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, Anton Reichenow, Ray Lankester, Cesare Arzelà, Vilma Hugonnai, and Carlo Alberto Castigliano. After him are Mary Watson Whitney, Morton Betts, Wilhelm Killing, Solomon Schechter, Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, and Dimitar Grekov. Among people deceased in 1921, Lipót Schulhof ranks 104. Before him are Ludwig Thoma, Jean Aicard, Edward Douglass White, Isak Saba, Leo Königsberger, and Abbott Handerson Thayer. After him are Mary Watson Whitney, William Robert Brooks, Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Henry Hyndman, and Jean Cau.

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