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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Wolf has received more than 107,837 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Max Wolf is the 73rd most popular astronomer (down from 54th in 2019), the 956th most popular biography from Germany (down from 698th in 2019) and the 11th 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 73 out of 531. Before him are Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, George Darwin, Albert Marth, William Lassell, Victor Ambartsumian, and Abu Hanifa Dinawari. After him are Russell Alan Hulse, Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, Stephen Gray, Petrus Plancius, Arthur B. McDonald, and Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Max Wolf ranks 28. Before him are Franz Stuck, Alexandre Yersin, Wilhelm Marx, Gaston Doumergue, Reinhard Scheer, and George Santayana. After him are Heinrich Rickert, William Randolph Hearst, Albert Calmette, Leo Baekeland, Essad Pasha Toptani, and Franz von Hipper. Among people deceased in 1932, Max Wolf ranks 20. Before him are Errico Malatesta, Joseph Babinski, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Edgar Wallace, Pavlik Morozov, and André Maginot. After him are Sophia of Prussia, Ferdinand Buisson, Jules Chéret, Eugen d'Albert, Ottokar Czernin, and Pierre De Geyter.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Wolf ranks 956 out of 6,142. Before him are Johannes Althusius (1563), Robert Michels (1876), Herbert Gille (1897), Sophie of Württemberg (1818), Karl Abraham (1877), and Erich Auerbach (1892). After him are Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1886), Johann Christoph Bach (1642), Julius Richard Petri (1852), Nicolaus Zinzendorf (1700), Ulay (1943), and Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Max Wolf ranks 11. Before him are Johann Bayer (1572), Caroline Herschel (1750), Wilhelm Schickard (1592), Simon Marius (1573), Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793), and Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (1822). After him are Karl Ludwig Harding (1765), Walter Baade (1893), Wilhelm Tempel (1821), Petrus Apianus (1495), David Fabricius (1564), and Johann Elert Bode (1747).

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