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Sylvain Arend

1902 - 1992

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Sylvain Julien Victor Arend (6 August 1902 – 18 February 1992) was a Belgian astronomer born in Robelmont, Luxembourg province, Belgium. His main interest was astrometry.Together with Georges Roland, he discovered the bright comet C/1956 R1 (Arend-Roland). He also discovered, or co-discovered, the periodic comets 49P/Arend-Rigaux and 50P/Arend, Nova Scuti 1952, and a number of asteroids, including notably the Amor asteroid 1916 Boreas and the Trojan asteroid 1583 Antilochus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sylvain Arend has received more than 15,151 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Sylvain Arend is the 318th most popular astronomer (down from 262nd in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Luxembourg (down from 27th in 2019) and the most popular Luxembourger Astronomer.

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Over the past year Sylvain Arend has had the most page views in the with 1,520 views, followed by French (1,025), and Polish (756). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (121.51%), Slovenian (79.50%), and West Frisian (57.81%)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Sylvain Arend ranks 318 out of 644. Before him are Adam Riess, Grigory Neujmin, Maurice Loewy, Lewis Boss, Louis Boyer, and Georges Rayet. After him are Nils Christoffer Dunér, Ercole Dembowski, Maarten Schmidt, Herbert Hall Turner, Eise Eisinga, and Fang Lizhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Sylvain Arend ranks 184. Before him are Emanuel Feuermann, Carlos Vidal, Vissarion Shebalin, Manuel Seoane, Jan Kiepura, and Margaret Hamilton. After him are Henri Saint Cyr, Moderato Wisintainer, Miriam Hopkins, Flora Robson, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, and Georgette Heyer. Among people deceased in 1992, Sylvain Arend ranks 139. Before him are Wilfried Dietrich, Karl Deutsch, Chris McCandless, Marsha P. Johnson, Jack Arnold, and Harald Sæverud. After him are Piotr Jaroszewicz, Arthur Cronquist, Richard Yates, Mihailo Lalić, Viktor Grishin, and Andrew Marton.

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In Luxembourg

Among people born in Luxembourg, Sylvain Arend ranks 30 out of 95. Before him are Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz (1722), Michel Théato (1878), Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1981), Archduchess Marie Astrid of Austria (1954), Camillo Felgen (1920), and Viviane Reding (1951). After him are Jean Asselborn (1949), Bertrand Gachot (1962), Jean-Claude Hollerich (1958), Pierre Frieden (1892), Paul Eyschen (1841), and Princess Marie Gabrielle of Luxembourg (1925).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Luxembourg

Among astronomers born in Luxembourg, Sylvain Arend ranks 1. 

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