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Bohdan Paczyński

1940 - 2007

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Bohdan Paczyński or Bohdan Paczynski (8 February 1940 – 19 April 2007) was a Polish astronomer notable for his theories and work in the fields of stellar evolution, accretion discs, and gamma ray bursts. He is the recipient of the Eddington Medal (1987), the Henry Draper Medal (1997), the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1999), and the Order of Polonia Restituta (2007). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bohdan Paczyński is the 466th most popular astronomer (up from 506th in 2019), the 147th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 181st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Lithuanian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Bohdan Paczyński ranks 466 out of 644. Before him are Frank Schlesinger, Kees de Jager, Avi Loeb, Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, Joel Stebbins, and Milorad B. Protić. After him are Audouin Dollfus, William Wilson Morgan, Hugo Gyldén, Hiroki Kosai, Carolyn Porco, and Elia Millosevich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Bohdan Paczyński ranks 361. Before him are Jerzy Kulej, Jozef Štibrányi, Osamu Watanabe, Warren Cole, Donald Wuerl, and Werner Krämer. After him are Jean-Paul Proust, Don Nelson, Claire Bretécher, Jorma Kaukonen, Billy McNeill, and Nasser Al-Sabah. Among people deceased in 2007, Bohdan Paczyński ranks 264. Before him are Julius Wess, Ellen Preis, Ove Grahn, Huang Ju, Karen Spärck Jones, and Sidney Coleman. After him are Angelo Conterno, Carlo Clerici, Jef Planckaert, Raymond Kaelbel, Joseph Nérette, and Giorgio Anglesio.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Bohdan Paczyński ranks 147 out of 328. Before him are Jonas Kazlauskas (1954), Kārlis Zāle (1888), Władysław Komar (1940), Isaak Kikoin (1908), Osip Senkovsky (1800), and Irena Degutienė (1949). After him are Ben Shahn (1898), Źmitrok Biadula (1886), Regimantas Adomaitis (1937), Hans-Georg Reimann (1941), Vladas Mironas (1880), and Mykolas Biržiška (1882).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Lithuania

Among astronomers born in Lithuania, Bohdan Paczyński ranks 2. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799).

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