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Thomas Bopp

1949 - 2018

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Thomas Joel Bopp (October 15, 1949 – January 5, 2018) was an American amateur astronomer. In 1995, he discovered comet Hale–Bopp; Alan Hale discovered it independently at almost the same time, and it was thus named after both of them. At the time of the comet discovery he was a manager at a construction materials factory and an amateur astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Bopp has received more than 171,457 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Thomas Bopp is the 563rd most popular astronomer (down from 517th in 2019), the 10,796th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,069th in 2019) and the 113th most popular American Astronomer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Thomas Bopp ranks 563 out of 644. Before him are Mary Ward, Bruce C. Murray, John August Anderson, Irwin I. Shapiro, Makio Akiyama, and Alfred Bohrmann. After him are Robert Herman, David L. Rabinowitz, Kazuro Watanabe, Peter Goldreich, Carlyle S. Beals, and Lidiya Tseraskaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Thomas Bopp ranks 644. Before him are Elena Salgado, Henryk Wieczorek, Olle Nordin, Evgeny Lovchev, Isabel Celaá, and Jean Kalala N'Tumba. After him are Pat Rice, Aleksandr Salnikov, Paul Shaffer, Warwick Brown, Bwanga Tshimen, and John Curry. Among people deceased in 2018, Thomas Bopp ranks 485. Before him are Javier González, Naomi Parker Fraley, Roy Clark, Ennio Fantastichini, Ken Berry, and Christine Muzio. After him are Arthur Schnabel, Sabit Hadžić, Věra Růžičková, Branko Grünbaum, Annapurna Devi, and James H. Billington.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas Bopp ranks 10,796 out of 20,380. Before him are Spring Byington (1886), Jennifer Taylor (1972), George Alec Effinger (1947), N. Scott Momaday (1934), Dan Henderson (1970), and Kenneth Choi (1971). After him are Cecily von Ziegesar (1970), The Game (1979), Doug Collins (1951), Wallace Stegner (1909), James Workman (1908), and Wilton Daniel Gregory (1947).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Thomas Bopp ranks 113. Before him are Anne Sewell Young (1871), David Rittenhouse (1732), Scott S. Sheppard (1977), Bruce C. Murray (1931), John August Anderson (1876), and Irwin I. Shapiro (1929). After him are Robert Herman (1914), David L. Rabinowitz (1960), Peter Goldreich (1939), A. E. Douglass (1867), Margaret Harwood (1885), and Christian Pollas (1947).

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