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Nikolai Chernykh

1931 - 2004

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Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh (Russian: Никола́й Степа́нович Черны́х, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj sʲtʲɪˈpanəvʲɪtɕ tɕɪrˈnɨx]; 6 October 1931 – 25 May 2004) was a Russian-born Soviet astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyi, Crimea. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Chernykh has received more than 58,164 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Nikolai Chernykh is the 136th most popular astronomer (down from 126th in 2019), the 518th most popular biography from Russia (up from 554th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Nikolai Chernykh ranks 136 out of 644. Before him are E. M. Antoniadi, John Goodricke, Arthur Auwers, Auguste Charlois, James Dunlop, and Hermann Carl Vogel. After him are Maria Margaretha Kirch, Dorothea Klumpke, Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Henry Draper, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, and August Kopff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Nikolai Chernykh ranks 87. Before him are Telê Santana, Ferenc Mádl, Stephen Boyd, Takashi Takabayashi, Thorvald Stoltenberg, and Sergio Sebastiani. After him are Johnny Kitagawa, Anthony de Mello, Samir Amin, Tomi Ungerer, Jack Swigert, and John Charles. Among people deceased in 2004, Nikolai Chernykh ranks 57. Before him are Otto Kumm, Elmer Bernstein, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, José López Portillo y Pacheco, Sacha Distel, and Carlos Lacoste. After him are Matthäus Hetzenauer, John Pople, Philip Abelson, Saizo Saito, Johnny Ramone, and John Charles.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Chernykh ranks 518 out of 3,761. Before him are Vera Menchik (1906), Lauri Törni (1919), Mikhail Skobelev (1843), Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev (1892), Elem Klimov (1933), and Nikolay Shvernik (1888). After him are Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), Helena of Moscow (1476), Rodion Shchedrin (1932), Mathilde Kschessinska (1872), Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (1888), and Hadji Murad (1795).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Russia

Among astronomers born in Russia, Nikolai Chernykh ranks 1. After him are Lyudmila Chernykh (1935), Sergey Belyavsky (1883), Hermann von Struve (1854), Lyudmila Zhuravleva (1946), Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (1935), Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev (1908), Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908), Lyudmila Karachkina (1948), Aristarkh Belopolsky (1854), Benjamin Jekhowsky (1881), and Alexander Voeikov (1842).

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