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Okuro Oikawa

1896 - 1970

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Okuro Oikawa (及川 奥郎, Oikawa Okurō, 1896–1970) was a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovered 8 asteroids between 1927 and 1929. The outer main-belt asteroid 2667 Oikawa was named in his memory. Naming citation was published on 1 June 1996 (M.P.C. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Okuro Oikawa has received more than 13,216 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Okuro Oikawa is the 524th most popular astronomer (down from 508th in 2019), the 1,521st most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,451st in 2019) and the 12th most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Okuro Oikawa ranks 524 out of 644. Before him are Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov, Minoru Honda, María Teresa Ruiz, John N. Bahcall, Erika Böhm-Vitense, and Korado Korlević. After him are Roy A. Tucker, Ľudmila Pajdušáková, William Christie, Edward S. Holden, Marc Aaronson, and John Pond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Okuro Oikawa ranks 240. Before him are John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, Arthur Tell Schwab, Uberto De Morpurgo, Howard Hanson, Józef Kałuża, and Simon Barere. After him are Charles Pahud de Mortanges, Gopal Swarup Pathak, Alister Hardy, Liam O'Flaherty, Lawrence Tibbett, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Among people deceased in 1970, Okuro Oikawa ranks 234. Before him are Paul Sturzenegger, Georg de Laval, Lonnie Johnson, Grethe Weiser, Paul Fritsch, and Vilhelm Carlberg. After him are A. H. M. Jones, Don Finlay, Adolf Wiklund, Jun'ichi Kōuchi, Lillian Board, and Maurice Stokes.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Okuro Oikawa ranks 1,521 out of 6,245. Before him are Akihiko Hoshide (1968), Tomoko Ohara (1957), Hiro Matsushita (1961), Kim Eui-tae (1941), Takashi Shimizu (1972), and Haruhisa Hasegawa (1957). After him are Yuji Naka (1965), Satoshi Tsunami (1961), Gege Akutami (1992), Shigeru Kasamatsu (1947), Ryuta Kawashima (1959), and Kazuaki Nagasawa (1958).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Okuro Oikawa ranks 12. Before him are Hiroki Kosai (1933), Yuji Hyakutake (1950), Takao Kobayashi (1961), Hisashi Kimura (1870), Kaoru Ikeya (1943), and Minoru Honda (1913). After him are Kiichirō Furukawa (1929), Seiji Ueda (1952), Kazuro Watanabe (1955), Kin Endate (1960), Kenzo Suzuki (1950), and Masayuki Yanai (1959).

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