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Otto Struve

1897 - 1963

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Otto Lyudvigovich Struve (Russian: Отто Людвигович Струве; 12 August 1897 – 6 April 1963) was a Russian-American astronomer of Baltic German origin. Otto was the descendant of famous astronomers of the Struve family; he was the son of Ludwig Struve, grandson of Otto Wilhelm von Struve and great-grandson of Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve. He was also the nephew of Karl Hermann Struve.With more than 900 journal articles and books, Struve was one of the most distinguished and prolific astronomers of the mid-20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Struve has received more than 108,043 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Struve is the 264th most popular astronomer (down from 197th in 2019), the 443rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 316th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Astronomer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Otto Struves by language

Over the past year Otto Struve has had the most page views in the with 12,151 views, followed by Russian (3,882), and Chinese (1,941). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kazakh (107.34%), Simple English (96.21%), and Southern Azerbaijani (87.56%)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Otto Struve ranks 264 out of 644. Before him are Catherine Wolfe Bruce, Nevil Maskelyne, Fred Lawrence Whipple, Maria Clara Eimmart, Sherburne Wesley Burnham, and Josep Comas i Solà. After him are Seth Carlo Chandler, André-Louis Danjon, William Cranch Bond, Guido Bonatti, Jean-Louis Pons, and Theodor von Oppolzer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Otto Struve ranks 155. Before him are Tan Malaka, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Lazare Ponticelli, Karl Decker, Paul Gallico, and Nicholas Poppe. After him are Lampião, Gaspar Cassadó, Marion Davies, Mikhail Kovalyov, Lepke Buchalter, and Richard Hildebrandt. Among people deceased in 1963, Otto Struve ranks 91. Before him are Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Luis Cernuda, Elmore James, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Hubert Pierlot, and Ivan Bek. After him are Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Fernando Tambroni, Maria Tănase, Patsy Cline, Shinobu Ishihara, and Alan Gardiner.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Otto Struve ranks 443 out of 1,365. Before him are Karol Mikuli (1821), Hugo Kołłątaj (1750), Nikolai Linevich (1839), Marian Jaworski (1926), Ada Rogovtseva (1937), and Alfred J. Lotka (1880). After him are Boris Iofan (1891), Alexander Spendiaryan (1871), Yury Olesha (1899), Emil Paur (1855), Isaak Dunayevsky (1900), and Arkady Luxemburg (1939).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Ukraine

Among astronomers born in Ukraine, Otto Struve ranks 4. Before him are Tamara Smirnova (1935), Svetlana Gerasimenko (1945), and Klim Churyumov (1937). After him are Iosif Shklovsky (1916), Viktor Knorre (1840), Grigory Shajn (1892), and Fyodor Bredikhin (1831).

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