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Robert Luther

1822 - 1900

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Karl Theodor Robert Luther (16 April 1822, Świdnica – 15 February 1900 Düsseldorf), normally published as Robert Luther, was a German astronomer. While working at the Bilk Observatory in Düsseldorf, Germany, he searched for asteroids and discovered 24 of them between 1852 and 1890. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Luther has received more than 22,224 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Robert Luther is the 28th most popular astronomer (up from 129th in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Poland (up from 324th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Astronomer.

Robert Luther is most famous for being the first person to successfully clone a mammal, which was a sheep named Dolly.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Robert Luther ranks 28 out of 644. Before him are Avempace, Edmond Halley, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Charles Greeley Abbot, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, and Giuseppe Piazzi. After him are Caroline Herschel, Johannes Hevelius, Johann Gottfried Galle, Wilhelm Schickard, Martin Ryle, and Adolphe Quetelet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Robert Luther ranks 9. Before him are Gregor Mendel, Heinrich Schliemann, Frédéric Passy, Rudolf Clausius, César Franck, and Francis Galton. After him are Rutherford B. Hayes, Prince Napoléon Bonaparte, Charles Hermite, Francis, Duke of Cádiz, Étienne Lenoir, and Sa'id of Egypt. Among people deceased in 1900, Robert Luther ranks 8. Before him are Oscar Wilde, Gottlieb Daimler, Max Müller, Wilhelm Steinitz, Umberto I of Italy, and Ivan Aivazovsky. After him are John Ruskin, Vladimir Solovyov, Étienne Lenoir, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Naim Frashëri, and Wilhelm Liebknecht.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Robert Luther ranks 85 out of 1,694. Before him are Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906), Kurt Alder (1902), Catherine Jagiellon (1526), Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), and Carl Menger (1840). After him are Friedrich Bergius (1884), Norbert Elias (1897), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833), Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), and Anton Denikin (1872).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Poland

Among astronomers born in Poland, Robert Luther ranks 2. Before him are Nicolaus Copernicus (1473). After him are Johannes Hevelius (1611), Albert Marth (1828), Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793), Johann Daniel Titius (1729), Maria Cunitz (1610), Aleksander Wolszczan (1946), Wilhelm Gliese (1915), Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (1561), Wilhelm Julius Foerster (1832), and Hugo von Seeliger (1849).

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