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Viktor Knorre

1840 - 1919

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Viktor Karlovich Knorre (Russian: Виктор Карлович Кнорре; 4 October 1840 – 25 August 1919) was a Russian astronomer of German ethnic origin. He worked in Nikolaev, Pulkovo and Berlin and is best known for having discovered 158 Koronis and three other minor planets. Knorre's father, Karl Friedrich Knorre, and grandfather, Ernst Friedrich Knorre, were also prominent astronomers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viktor Knorre has received more than 15,882 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Viktor Knorre is the 354th most popular astronomer (down from 337th in 2019), the 613th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 541st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Ukrainian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Viktor Knorre ranks 354 out of 644. Before him are Takeshi Urata, Eugene Parker, Herbert Friedman, Hervé Faye, Bart Bok, and Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov. After him are Heikki A. Alikoski, Christopher Hansteen, Georg Marcgrave, Beatrice Tinsley, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, and Kiyotsugu Hirayama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Viktor Knorre ranks 67. Before him are Charles Warren, Lars Fredrik Nilson, Kazimierz Alchimowicz, André Gill, Franco Faccio, and Célestine Galli-Marié. After him are Aisha Taymur, Theodor Philipsen, Nozu Michitsura, Émile Duclaux, Chief Joseph, and Hilarión Daza. Among people deceased in 1919, Viktor Knorre ranks 117. Before him are Amado Nervo, Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky, Woldemar Voigt, Paul Deussen, Mary Edwards Walker, and Tibor Szamuely. After him are Ricardo Palma, José Santos Zelaya, Wallace Clement Sabine, Henry Clay Frick, Oleksandr Murashko, and Géza Csáth.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Viktor Knorre ranks 613 out of 1,365. Before him are Nathan Altman (1889), Aleksander Ford (1908), Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (1979), Anatoliy Demyanenko (1959), Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938), and František Kriegel (1908). After him are Viktor Tsybulenko (1930), Grigory Kriss (1940), Walery Sławek (1879), Faina Melnik (1945), Alexander Beliavsky (1953), and Nikolay Girs (1820).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Ukraine

Among astronomers born in Ukraine, Viktor Knorre ranks 6. Before him are Tamara Smirnova (1935), Svetlana Gerasimenko (1945), Klim Churyumov (1937), Otto Struve (1897), and Iosif Shklovsky (1916). After him are Grigory Shajn (1892), and Fyodor Bredikhin (1831).

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