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Milorad B. Protić

1911 - 2001

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Milorad B. Protić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Б. Протић; 19 September 1911, Belgrade – 29 October 2001, Belgrade) was a Serbian astronomer, discoverer of comets and minor planets, and three times director of the Belgrade Observatory. Protić is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 7 numbered asteroids during 1936–1952, including 1675 Simonida, named after queen Simonida, wife of medieval Serbian king Stefan Milutin, and 2348 Michkovitch, a rare Erigone asteroid named after Vojislav Mišković (1892–1976), who was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and head of the Belgrade Observatory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Milorad B. Protić has received more than 15,236 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Milorad B. Protić is the 357th most popular astronomer (down from 310th in 2019), the 196th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 160th in 2019) and the most popular Serbian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Milorad B. Protić ranks 357 out of 531. Before him are Sandra Faber, Brian G. Marsden, George Van Biesbroeck, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Kees de Jager, and Warren De la Rue. After him are Philibert Jacques Melotte, Sherburne Wesley Burnham, Hervé Faye, Paul Götz, Hendrik van Gent, and Otto Heckmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Milorad B. Protić ranks 201. Before him are Brian O'Nolan, Leif Erickson, Jean Shiley, Bel Kaufman, Lisa Fonssagrives, and Stan Kenton. After him are Butterfly McQueen, Gavriil Kachalin, Betty Robinson, Nils Eriksen, Wolfgang Larrazábal, and Antonio Sastre. Among people deceased in 2001, Milorad B. Protić ranks 182. Before him are Jane Greer, Budd Boetticher, Arturo Uslar Pietri, Martha Mödl, Jalil Zandi, and Burkhard Heim. After him are Juan José Arreola, Robert Leckie, Phoolan Devi, Mongo Beti, Enrique Mateos, and Lewis Arquette.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Milorad B. Protić ranks 196 out of 564. Before him are Predrag Bjelac (1962), Zoran Janković (1953), Sinan Sakić (1956), Mirjana Karanović (1957), Zoran Lilić (1953), and Dragana Mirković (1968). After him are Milutin Ivković (1906), Géza Csáth (1887), Slobodan Santrač (1946), Ljubomir Davidović (1863), Ivan Toplak (1931), and Käthe von Nagy (1904).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Serbia

Among astronomers born in Serbia, Milorad B. Protić ranks 1. 

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