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Pavel Shternberg

1865 - 1920

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Pavel Karlovich Shternberg (Russian: Павел Карлович Штернберг; April 2, [O.S. March 21] 1865 – February 1, 1920, both dates New Style) was a Russian professor, academic, astronomer, Bolshevik and revolutionary of German descent. Shternberg contributed to the abolition of the Tsarist government by Alexander Kerensky during the February Revolution of 1917. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pavel Shternberg has received more than 11,409 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Pavel Shternberg is the 553rd most popular astronomer (down from 509th in 2019), the 2,391st most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,090th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Russian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Pavel Shternberg ranks 553 out of 644Before him are Vera Gaze, Anne Sewell Young, Ewine van Dishoeck, Thomas Brisbane, Avi Loeb, and David Rittenhouse. After him are Scott S. Sheppard, Thomas Romney Robinson, Richard A. Proctor, Mary Ward, Bruce C. Murray, and John August Anderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Pavel Shternberg ranks 157Before him are Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Arthur Symons, Walter Frederick Gale, Charles Stanton Ogle, Janez Evangelist Krek, and Charles Sands. After him are Mrs Patrick Campbell, Wilhelm Wirtinger, Gifford Pinchot, and Susan La Flesche Picotte. Among people deceased in 1920, Pavel Shternberg ranks 128Before him are Victoriano Guisasola y Menéndez, Albert Zürner, Daniel Kelly, Wilberforce Eaves, Pablo Arosemena, and Horace Elgin Dodge. After him are Walter W. Winans, Charles Lapworth, Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann, Samuel Colman, Terence MacSwiney, and Charles Tomlinson Griffes.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pavel Shternberg ranks 2,391 out of 3,761Before him are Mikhail Anikushin (1917), Irina Levitina (1954), Valery Garkalin (1954), Alexandra Kosteniuk (1984), Origa (1970), and Arkady Dvorkovich (1972). After him are Antonina Seredina (1929), Ian Nepomniachtchi (1990), Ruslan Gelayev (1964), Aleksey Spiridonov (1951), Alexander Bashlachev (1960), and Anastasia Zavorotnyuk (1971).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Russia

Among astronomers born in Russia, Pavel Shternberg ranks 17Before him are Benjamin Jekhowsky (1881), Alexander Voeikov (1842), Pelageya Shajn (1894), Karl Ludwig Littrow (1811), Matvey Gusev (1826), and Vera Gaze (1899). After him are Lidiya Tseraskaya (1855).