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August Kopff

1882 - 1960

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August Kopff (February 5, 1882 – April 25, 1960) was a German astronomer and discoverer of several comets and asteroids. Kopff studied and worked in Heidelberg, getting his PhD there in 1906 and he then joined the Humboldt University of Berlin where he became the Director of the Institute for Astronomical Calculation. He discovered some comets, including periodic comet 22P/Kopff and the non-periodic C/1906 E1. He discovered a number of asteroids, including notably the Trojan asteroids 617 Patroclus and 624 Hektor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. August Kopff is the 109th most popular astronomer (up from 142nd in 2019), the 1,037th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,621st in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, August Kopff ranks 109 out of 644. Before him are Walter Sydney Adams, Edward Charles Pickering, David Fabricius, Johann Elert Bode, William Huggins, and Lewis A. Swift. After him are Stephen Gray, Robert Luther, John Louis Emil Dreyer, Annie Jump Cannon, James Van Allen, and Petrus Plancius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, August Kopff ranks 55. Before him are Yanka Kupala, Boris Shaposhnikov, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, Jean Giraudoux, Aleksandra Ekster, and Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Princess Alexandra of Hanover, Yusef of Morocco, Éamon de Valera, Wacław Sierpiński, Yakub Kolas, and Robert Hichens. Among people deceased in 1960, August Kopff ranks 25. Before him are Aloysius Stepinac, Igor Kurchatov, Ernst von Dohnányi, J. L. Austin, Ana Pauker, and Clara Haskil. After him are Henri Guisan, Victor Sjöström, Héctor Castro, Inejiro Asanuma, Felix Kersten, and Said Nursî.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Kopff ranks 1,037 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783), Henri Victor Regnault (1810), John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (1604), Wilhelm Gustloff (1895), Beate Klarsfeld (1939), and Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria (1831). After him are Boris Becker (1967), Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (1774), Johann Christoph Bach (1642), Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1831), Friedrich Jeckeln (1895), and William II of Württemberg (1848).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, August Kopff ranks 21. Before him are Karl Ludwig Harding (1765), Petrus Apianus (1495), Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), Arthur Auwers (1838), David Fabricius (1564), and Johann Elert Bode (1747). After him are Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670), Heinrich Schwabe (1789), Hermann Goldschmidt (1802), Reinhard Genzel (1952), Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745), and Wilhelm von Biela (1782).

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