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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 14,604 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Viktor Knorre is the 337th most popular astronomer (down from 274th in 2019), the 544th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 423rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Ukrainian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Viktor Knorre ranks 337 out of 531Before him are Cyril Jackson, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, Holger Thiele, Vladimir Albitsky, Georges Rayet, and Gustav Spörer. After him are Maarten Schmidt, Félix Tisserand, Luboš Kohoutek, Eugene Parker, Dirk Brouwer, and Paul W. Merrill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Viktor Knorre ranks 59Before him are Otto Wilhelm Thomé, William Graham Sumner, Alexander Kovalevsky, Charles Warren, Abraham Goldfaden, and Chief Joseph. After him are Célestine Galli-Marié, William Henry Conley, Kazimierz Alchimowicz, Theodor Philipsen, Émile Duclaux, and Victorino de la Plaza. Among people deceased in 1919, Viktor Knorre ranks 107Before him are Amado Nervo, Wallace Clement Sabine, Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen, Paul von Jankó, Nikolay Shchors, and Pavel Chistyakov. After him are José Santos Zelaya, Elia Millosevich, Maryana Marrash, Franz Nissl, Tibor Szamuely, and Ricardo Palma.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Viktor Knorre ranks 544 out of 1,083Before him are Géza Kalocsay (1913), Franciszek Kleeberg (1888), Jan Brzechwa (1898), Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1895), Mikhail Zhvanetsky (1934), and Shura Cherkassky (1909). After him are Aleksander Brückner (1856), Leonid Stein (1934), Aleksander Ford (1908), Oleksiy Honcharuk (1984), Joseph Ludwig Raabe (1801), and Mieczysław Horszowski (1892).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Ukraine

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