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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 37,433 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Yuji Hyakutake is the 494th most popular astronomer (down from 484th in 2019), the 1,397th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,332nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Yuji Hyakutake ranks 494 out of 644. Before him are Fernand Rigaux, Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, Patrick Moore, Carlos Torres, Ernest Leonard Johnson, and William Wilson Morgan. After him are Robert Emden, Frank Shu, Takao Kobayashi, David C. Jewitt, James Challis, and Pierre Puiseux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Yuji Hyakutake ranks 451. Before him are Ofelia Medina, Alan Sorrenti, Serge Chiesa, Roland Andersson, Jill Stein, and Mac Wilkins. After him are Ken Alibek, Juice Leskinen, Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo, Teddy Pendergrass, Aloma Wright, and Anders Linderoth. Among people deceased in 2002, Yuji Hyakutake ranks 264. Before him are Stafford Beer, Walter Winterbottom, Zoran Janković, Mario de las Casas, Mary Brian, and Eduard Gufeld. After him are Mariya Smirnova, Melih Cevdet Anday, Kaisa Parviainen, Katrin Cartlidge, Willie Davenport, and Conny Vandenbos.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yuji Hyakutake ranks 1,397 out of 6,245. Before him are Tamotsu Suzuki (1947), Shidzue Katō (1897), Seiichiro Kashio (1892), Masao Harada (1912), Nobuyuki Aihara (1934), and Chieko Hase (1956). After him are Asuka (1981), Tsuneko Sasamoto (1914), Ōten Shimokawa (1892), Miyavi (1981), Naomi Kawase (1969), and Nobuko Imai (1943).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Yuji Hyakutake ranks 7. Before him are Takeshi Urata (1947), Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874), Chushiro Hayashi (1920), Tsutomu Seki (1930), Hiroshi Kaneda (1953), and Hiroki Kosai (1933). After him are Takao Kobayashi (1961), Hisashi Kimura (1870), Kaoru Ikeya (1943), Minoru Honda (1913), Okuro Oikawa (1896), and Kiichirō Furukawa (1929).

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