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Max Wolf

1863 - 1932

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Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf (21 June 1863 – 3 October 1932) was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography. He was the chairman of astronomy at the University of Heidelberg and director of the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory from 1902 until his death in 1932. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Wolf is the 56th most popular astronomer, the 706th most popular biography from Germany and the 8th most popular German Astronomer.

Max Wolf was a German astronomer and physicist who is most famous for his work on the Milky Way and discovering the first spectroscopic binary stars.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Max Wolf ranks 56 out of 644. Before him are Riccardo Giacconi, William Lassell, Varāhamihira, Pierre Janssen, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, and William Alfred Fowler. After him are Johann Bayer, Antony Hewish, Pieter van Musschenbroek, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Johann Franz Encke, and Simon Marius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Max Wolf ranks 24. Before him are Joaquín Sorolla, Wilhelm Marx, Austen Chamberlain, Alexandre Yersin, Gaston Doumergue, and Werner Sombart. After him are Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Franz Stuck, George Santayana, Heinrich Rickert, Reinhard Scheer, and William Randolph Hearst. Among people deceased in 1932, Max Wolf ranks 14. Before him are Gustav Meyrink, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Errico Malatesta, George Eastman, and Ronald Ross. After him are Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Joseph Babinski, Edgar Wallace, Margaret Brown, Sophia of Prussia, and André Maginot.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Wolf ranks 706 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich Hoffmann (1885), Kurt Koffka (1886), Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1784), Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria (1727), Georg Büchner (1813), and Louis Spohr (1784). After him are Kurt Meyer (1910), Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787), Artur Axmann (1913), Carlos Kleiber (1930), Hermann Cohen (1842), and Thomas Anders (1963).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Max Wolf ranks 8. Before him are William Herschel (1738), Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758), Caroline Herschel (1750), Johann Gottfried Galle (1812), Wilhelm Schickard (1592), and Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (1822). After him are Johann Bayer (1572), Johann Franz Encke (1791), Simon Marius (1573), Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793), Walter Baade (1893), and David Fabricius (1564).

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