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Martin Schwarzschild

1912 - 1997

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Martin Schwarzschild (May 31, 1912 – April 10, 1997) was a German-American astrophysicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Schwarzschild has received more than 119,933 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Martin Schwarzschild is the 197th most popular astronomer (up from 214th in 2019), the 2,250th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,591st in 2019) and the 34th most popular German Astronomer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Martin Schwarzschildren by language

Over the past year Martin Schwarzschild has had the most page views in the with 10,757 views, followed by German (3,245), and Chinese (2,796). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (88.70%), Egyptian Arabic (53.85%), and Norwegian (Nynorsk) (49.51%)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Martin Schwarzschild ranks 197 out of 644. Before him are Yrjö Väisälä, Liisi Oterma, Eleanor F. Helin, Andreas Cellarius, Francis Baily, and Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji. After him are Peter Andreas Hansen, Jeremiah Horrocks, Bernard Lyot, Seth Barnes Nicholson, John Stanley Plaskett, and Margherita Hack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Martin Schwarzschild ranks 116. Before him are Isidro Lángara, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Yaroslav Stetsko, Barbara W. Tuchman, Kaneto Shindo, and Aymoré Moreira. After him are Nancy Wake, David Packard, Joachim Schepke, Maria Montez, Richard Brooks, and Marta Eggerth. Among people deceased in 1997, Martin Schwarzschild ranks 94. Before him are Giuseppe De Santis, Michael Hutchence, Kang Song-san, Andrés Rodríguez, Jacinto Quincoces, and Chiang Wei-kuo. After him are Allan Edwall, Jambyn Batmönkh, Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr., Bo Widerberg, Félix Candela, and Robert Serber.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Martin Schwarzschild ranks 2,250 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Mauss (1898), Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden (1704), Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (1792), Georg Ratzinger (1924), Maria Aurora von Königsmarck (1662), and Gregor Gysi (1948). After him are Eduard Meyer (1855), Franz von Lenbach (1836), Albert II, Duke of Saxony (1250), Hermann Levi (1839), Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (1445), and Jürgen Moltmann (1926).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Martin Schwarzschild ranks 34. Before him are Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921), August Kopff (1882), Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (1870), Tobias Mayer (1723), Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745), and Andreas Cellarius (1596). After him are Erasmus Reinhold (1511), Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794), Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780), Johannes Fabricius (1587), Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834), and Wilhelm Beer (1797).

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