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Lutz D. Schmadel

1942 - 2016

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Lutz Dieter Schmadel (2 July 1942, in Berlin – 21 October 2016) was a German astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroids, who worked at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ARI) of the University of Heidelberg. His special interest was the astrometry of minor planets. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lutz D. Schmadel has received more than 36,137 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Lutz D. Schmadel is the 418th most popular astronomer (down from 398th in 2019), the 4,493rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,053rd in 2019) and the 63rd most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Lutz D. Schmadel ranks 418 out of 644. Before her are Harold D. Babcock, Catherine Cesarsky, William Rutter Dawes, Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Giuseppe Asclepi, and Shi Shen. After her are Frederik Kaiser, Aristarkh Belopolsky, Philibert Jacques Melotte, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, Stéphane Javelle, and William de Wiveleslie Abney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Lutz D. Schmadel ranks 448. Before her are Patricia Bath, Rutanya Alda, Mamoni Raisom Goswami, Jim Keltner, Deirdre McCloskey, and Driss Bamous. After her are Enrique Morente, Michael Gwisdek, Antoni Piechniczek, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, and Clara Nunes. Among people deceased in 2016, Lutz D. Schmadel ranks 319. Before her are Néstor Gonçalves, Mother Angelica, Lasse Mårtenson, Martin Lundström, Robert Fano, and Anatoly Roshchin. After her are Rudy Van Gelder, Heinrich Schiff, Peter Maxwell Davies, Amelia Bence, Norbert Schemansky, and Giorgio Albertazzi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Lutz D. Schmadel ranks 4,493 out of 7,253. Before her are Peter-Michael Kolbe (1953), Ulrike Meyfarth (1956), Oskar Sala (1910), Julius Curtius (1877), Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867), and Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels (1673). After her are Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen (1730), Franco Foda (1966), Ferdinand Zirkel (1838), Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen (1803), Elisabeth Eleonore of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1658), and Walter Sedlmayr (1926).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Lutz D. Schmadel ranks 63. Before her are Albrecht Unsöld (1905), Julius Schiller (1580), Friedrich Tietjen (1834), Richard Schorr (1867), Ludwig Biermann (1907), and Otto Heckmann (1901). After her are Leo Anton Karl de Ball (1853), Gustav Spörer (1822), Cuno Hoffmeister (1892), Gottfried Kirch (1639), Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), and Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806).

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