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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. Protić also independently discovered comet C/1947 Y1.Protić died on 29 October 2001 in Belgrade. The main-belt asteroid 22278 Protitch, discovered by Henri Debehogne at ESO's Chilean La Silla site in 1983, was named in his memory. Naming citation was published on 30 December 2001 (M.P.C. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Milorad B. Protić has received more than 15,079 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Milorad B. Protić is the 431st most popular astronomer (down from 357th in 2019), the 253rd most popular biography from Serbia (down from 196th in 2019) and the most popular Serbian Astronomer.

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Over the past year Milorad B. Protić has had the most page views in the with 1,902 views, followed by Serbian (944), and Italian (818). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Macedonian (55.93%), Serbo-Croatian (37.65%), and Esperanto (30.26%)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Milorad B. Protić ranks 431 out of 644. Before him are Leo Anton Karl de Ball, Gustav Spörer, Adalbert Krueger, Joel Stebbins, Johann Gottfried Köhler, and Fernand Courty. After him are Benjamin Jekhowsky, Cuno Hoffmeister, George Van Biesbroeck, George Herbig, William Frederick Denning, and Dilhan Eryurt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Milorad B. Protić ranks 256. Before him are Rudolf Raftl, Constantin Stanciu, Marie Braun, Gedeon Barcza, Albina Osipowich, and József Háda. After him are Jo Jones, Roy Eldridge, Anatol Rapoport, Maurice Goldhaber, Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, and Leslie Graham. Among people deceased in 2001, Milorad B. Protić ranks 229. Before him are Giancarlo Brusati, Vasili Kuznetsov, József Csermák, Dmitry Polyansky, Stanislav Rostotsky, and Sergio Mantovani. After him are Nancye Wynne Bolton, Christl Haas, Pavel Schmidt, Francis Bebey, Bill Roberts, and Leonid Ostrovski.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Milorad B. Protić ranks 253 out of 661. Before him are Bogoljub Jevtić (1886), Goran Karan (1964), Slobodan Živojinović (1963), Aleksandar Petaković (1930), Silvester Takač (1940), and Dušan Tadić (1988). After him are Josef von Báky (1902), Jovan Aćimović (1948), Vladislav Bogićević (1950), Miloš Teodosić (1987), Vera Nikolić (1948), and Marko Pantelić (1978).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Serbia

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

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