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ASTRONOMER

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 53,741 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Nikolai Chernykh is the 126th most popular astronomer (up from 146th in 2019), the 555th most popular biography from Russia (up from 589th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Nikolai Chernykh ranks 126 out of 531Before him are Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Ali Qushji, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, Hermann Goldschmidt, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, and Maslama al-Majriti. After him are Johann Daniel Titius, John Russell Hind, Robert Luther, Annibale de Gasparis, Harlow Shapley, and Walter Sydney Adams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Nikolai Chernykh ranks 97Before him are Peter Collins, Takashi Takabayashi, John Gavin, Angie Dickinson, Mike Nichols, and Yao Wenyuan. After him are Vujadin Boškov, Barbara Eden, Koichi Sugiyama, Ermanno Olmi, Telê Santana, and Haya Harareet. Among people deceased in 2004, Nikolai Chernykh ranks 61Before him are Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Raymond Goethals, Serge Reggiani, Jean Rouch, Lennart Bernadotte, and Harold Shipman. After him are Nino Manfredi, Marika Rökk, Charles Sweeney, Philippe de Broca, Mercedes McCambridge, and Thanom Kittikachorn.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Chernykh ranks 555 out of 3,262Before him are Yuri Averbakh (1922), Mikhail Skobelev (1843), Konstantin Makovsky (1839), Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), Grigory Sokolov (1950), and Sergey Biryuzov (1904). After him are Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (1301), Ivan Sechenov (1829), Viktor Tikhonov (1930), Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (1846), Wilhelm Voigt (1849), and Nikolai Kardashev (1932).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Russia

Among astronomers born in Russia, Nikolai Chernykh ranks 1After him are Lyudmila Chernykh (1935), Sergey Belyavsky (1883), Hermann von Struve (1854), Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (1935), Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908), Lyudmila Zhuravleva (1946), Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev (1908), Lyudmila Karachkina (1948), Benjamin Jekhowsky (1881), Pelageya Shajn (1894), and Alexander Voeikov (1842).