ASTRONOMER

Wilhelm Tempel

1821 - 1889

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Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel (4 December 1821 – 16 March 1889), normally known as Wilhelm Tempel, was a German astronomer who worked in Marseille until the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, then later moved to Italy. Tempel was born at Niedercunnersdorf, Saxony. He was a prolific discoverer of comets, discovering or co-discovering 21 in all, including Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, now known to be the parent body of the Leonid meteor shower, and 9P/Tempel, the target of the NASA probe Deep Impact in 2005. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Tempel has received more than 31,896 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Wilhelm Tempel is the 97th most popular astronomer (down from 83rd in 2019), the 1,176th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,081st in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Wilhelm Tempel ranks 97 out of 644. Before him are Johann Palisa, Karl Ludwig Hencke, Petrus Apianus, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, and Johann Elert Bode. After him are Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Reinhard Genzel, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, and Adelard of Bath.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Wilhelm Tempel ranks 20. Before him are Johann Josef Loschmidt, Arthur Cayley, Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Andrew Kim Taegon, Anita Garibaldi, and Nikolay Nekrasov. After him are Heinrich Barth, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Sebastian Kneipp, Giovanni Bottesini, Bartolomé Mitre, and Eduard Heine. Among people deceased in 1889, Wilhelm Tempel ranks 17. Before him are Father Damien, Wilkie Collins, Charles III, Prince of Monaco, Marie of Prussia, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, and Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies. After him are Giovanni Bottesini, Maria Mitchell, Robert Browning, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, and Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Tempel ranks 1,176 out of 7,253. Before him are Alfred Krupp (1812), Johann Elert Bode (1747), Mesut Özil (1988), Franz Josef Strauss (1915), Horst Tappert (1923), and Friedrich Kuhlau (1786). After him are Anna Maria van Schurman (1607), Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1754), Hermann Alexander Diels (1848), Franz Ehrle (1845), Paul Natorp (1854), and Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1785).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Wilhelm Tempel ranks 19. Before him are Walter Baade (1893), David Fabricius (1564), Petrus Apianus (1495), Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591), Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (1892), and Johann Elert Bode (1747). After him are Reinhard Genzel (1952), Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), Karl Ludwig Harding (1765), Heinrich Schwabe (1789), Hermann Goldschmidt (1802), and Arthur Auwers (1838).

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