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Yuji Hyakutake

1950 - 2002

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Yuji Hyakutake (百武 裕司, Hyakutake Yūji, July 7, 1950, Shimabara, Nagasaki – April 10, 2002, Kokubu, Kagoshima) was a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered Comet C/1996 B2, also known as Comet Hyakutake on January 31, 1996, while using 25×150 binoculars. Hyakutake graduated from the Kyushu Sangyo University as a photography major and started working at a newspaper in Fukuoka. He first became interested in astronomy after seeing Comet Ikeya–Seki in 1965. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuji Hyakutake has received more than 34,505 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Yuji Hyakutake is the 484th most popular astronomer (down from 446th in 2019), the 1,335th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,160th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Yuji Hyakutake ranks 484 out of 531. Before him are Kaoru Ikeya, María Teresa Ruiz, Grigory Shajn, Thomas Romney Robinson, Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist, and Arno Arthur Wachmann. After him are Grove Karl Gilbert, Walter Frederick Gale, Ľudmila Pajdušáková, John N. Bahcall, Wilhelm Anderson, and Richard A. Proctor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Yuji Hyakutake ranks 420. Before him are Bertrand Meyer, Jean-Paul Dubois, Dave Wottle, Vladislav Bogićević, Walter Becker, and Alan Sorrenti. After him are Peter Jurasik, Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo, Michael Swanwick, Mariya Petkova, Patti Austin, and Karl Rove. Among people deceased in 2002, Yuji Hyakutake ranks 265. Before him are Jack Kruschen, John Buscema, Kristen Nygaard, Aileen Riggin, Jonathan Harris, and José Hierro. After him are Johannes Joachim Degenhardt, Günther Ortmann, Spike Milligan, Lev Kulidzhanov, Lily Carlstedt, and Bob Hayes.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yuji Hyakutake ranks 1,335 out of 6,048. Before him are Ryuta Kawashima (1959), Yuji Ide (1975), Princess Mako of Akishino (1991), Hiroaki Hirata (1963), Shinji Ono (1979), and Ryōko Hirosue (1980). After him are Nobuyuki Aihara (1934), Ryue Nishizawa (1966), Shigeru Kasamatsu (1947), Seishi Kishimoto (1974), Shiho Kaneda (1965), and Hiroyuki Takei (1972).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Yuji Hyakutake ranks 5. Before him are Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874), Tsutomu Seki (1930), Chushiro Hayashi (1920), and Takeshi Urata (1947). After him are Hisashi Kimura (1870), Hiroki Kosai (1933), Seiji Ueda (1952), Kiichirō Furukawa (1929), Okuro Oikawa (1896), Hiroshi Kaneda (1953), and Takao Kobayashi (1961).

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