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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 33,415 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Lutz D. Schmadel is the 398th most popular astronomer (down from 392nd in 2019), the 4,066th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,654th in 2019) and the 60th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Lutz D. Schmadel ranks 398 out of 531. Before her are Bart Bok, Geoffrey Burbidge, Jill Tarter, Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, Mary Ward, and Janet Akyüz Mattei. After her are Hugo von Seeliger, Richard Schorr, Lyudmila Karachkina, Alfred Schmitt, Henry L. Giclas, and Michael E. Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Lutz D. Schmadel ranks 422. Before her are Ariel Dorfman, Lola Falana, John Ashcroft, Dobromir Zhechev, Peter Tork, and Ramiro de León Carpio. After her are Donald Rayfield, Dith Pran, Ferenc Kiss, James Soong, Gabriela Adameșteanu, and Tom Belsø. Among people deceased in 2016, Lutz D. Schmadel ranks 295. Before her are Anne Jackson, William Trevor, Ali Javan, Pierre Tchernia, Ruth Leuwerik, and Robert Fano. After her are Jiří Tichý, Rita Renoir, Pauline Oliveros, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Alfred G. Knudson, and Anatoli Ilyin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Lutz D. Schmadel ranks 4,066 out of 6,142. Before her are Manfred Burgsmüller (1949), Walter Sedlmayr (1926), Oskar Lenz (1848), Timo Glock (1982), Dana Wynter (1931), and Mathieu Carrière (1950). After her are Ferdinand von Mueller (1825), Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (1749), Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels (1673), Charlotte Auerbach (1899), Jens Weißflog (1964), and Adolf Brand (1874).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Lutz D. Schmadel ranks 60. Before her are Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), Paul Götz (1883), Otto Heckmann (1901), Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), Gottfried Kirch (1639), and Ludwig Biermann (1907). After her are Richard Schorr (1867), Leo Anton Karl de Ball (1853), Friedrich Tietjen (1834), Albrecht Unsöld (1905), Alfred Bohrmann (1904), and Hans-Emil Schuster (1934).

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