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Richard Martin West

1941 - Today

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Richard Martin West (born 1941) is a Danish astronomer and discoverer of astronomical objects with a long career at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and at the International Astronomical Union (IAU). He discovered numerous comets, including Comet West (C/1975 V1), which was one of the brightest comets of the 1970s, and the periodic comets 76P/West–Kohoutek–Ikemura and 123P/West–Hartley. He is also credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 40 minor planets between 1976 and 1986, including 2146 Stentor and 2148 Epeios, two Trojan asteroids. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Martin West has received more than 22,507 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Richard Martin West is the 365th most popular astronomer (down from 305th in 2019), the 409th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 353rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Danish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Richard Martin West ranks 365 out of 644. Before him are Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Giorgio Abetti, Heber Doust Curtis, Jean Richer, and Carl Keenan Seyfert. After him are Dirk Brouwer, Alvan Graham Clark, Paul Götz, Ralph Copeland, James Edward Keeler, and Johann III Bernoulli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Richard Martin West ranks 338. Before him are Martine Beswick, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Kornel Morawiecki, Ana Maria Machado, Christopher Hogwood, and Alla Kushnir. After him are Charlotte Stewart, Bas van Fraassen, Hank Marvin, David Johnston, Bo Svenson, and Ed Roberts.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Richard Martin West ranks 409 out of 1,032. Before him are Johanne Luise Heiberg (1812), Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (1821), Karl Aage Præst (1922), Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1685), Theodor Philipsen (1840), and L. A. Ring (1854). After him are Jens Ferdinand Willumsen (1864), Robert Jacobsen (1912), Jacob Ellehammer (1871), Klaus Rifbjerg (1931), Viggo Johansen (1851), and Thomas Bo Larsen (1963).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Denmark

Among astronomers born in Denmark, Richard Martin West ranks 5. Before him are Ole Rømer (1644), Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873), John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852), and Peter Andreas Hansen (1795). After him are Christen Sørensen Longomontanus (1562), Holger Thiele (1878), Julie Vinter Hansen (1890), and Anja Cetti Andersen (1965).

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