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Rudolf Wolf

1816 - 1893

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Johann Rudolf Wolf (7 July 1816 – 6 December 1893) was a Swiss astronomer and mathematician best known for his research on sunspots. Wolf was born in Fällanden, near Zurich. He studied at the universities of Zurich, Vienna, and Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Wolf has received more than 26,531 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Wolf is the 203rd most popular astronomer (up from 207th in 2019), the 240th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 237th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Rudolf Wolf ranks 203 out of 531Before him are Otto Struve, Edward Walter Maunder, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, Johann Heinrich von Mädler, James Dunlop, and Johannes Fabricius. After him are William Wallace Campbell, Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, Guillaume Le Gentil, Edward L. G. Bowell, James W. Christy, and Heinrich Christian Schumacher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, Rudolf Wolf ranks 19Before him are Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, Giovanni Morelli, Gustav Freytag, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Paul Féval, père, and Antoine François Marmontel. After him are Charles-Denis Bourbaki, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, John Frederick Kensett, Malwida von Meysenbug, Wazir Akbar Khan, and Ion Ghica. Among people deceased in 1893, Rudolf Wolf ranks 32Before him are Alexander Cunningham, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, José Zorrilla, Ford Madox Brown, Jacob Moleschott, and Robert Cornelius. After him are Julius Popper, Matsudaira Katamori, Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Samuel Baker, Nikolai Zverev, and Alphonse Beau de Rochas.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Rudolf Wolf ranks 240 out of 876Before him are Giovanni Giacometti (1868), Carl Nägeli (1817), DJ BoBo (1968), Jean Starobinski (1920), Heinz Holliger (1939), and Ivan Rakitić (1988). After him are Ludwig Senfl (1486), George de Mestral (1907), Vincent Perez (1964), Adolf Wölfli (1864), Henri Schwery (1932), and Emer de Vattel (1714).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Switzerland

Among astronomers born in Switzerland, Rudolf Wolf ranks 3Before him are Michel Mayor (1942) and Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux (1718). After him are Didier Queloz (1966), Paul Wild (1925), Johann III Bernoulli (1744), Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664), Robert Julius Trumpler (1886), and Robert Emden (1862).