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Charles T. Kowal

1940 - 2011

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Charles Thomas Kowal (November 8, 1940 – November 28, 2011) was an American astronomer known for his observations and discoveries in the Solar System. As a staff astronomer at Caltech's Mount Wilson and Palomar Mountain observatories between 1961 and 1984, he found the first of a new class of Solar System objects, the centaurs, discovered two moons of the planet Jupiter, and discovered or co-discovered a number of asteroids, comets and supernovae. He was awarded the James Craig Watson Medal for his contributions to astronomy in 1979. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles T. Kowal is the 246th most popular astronomer (up from 284th in 2019), the 3,460th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,125th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among astronomers, Charles T. Kowal ranks 246 out of 644. Before him are Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, Cleomedes, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann, Josep Comas i Solà, Alfred Fowler, and Benjamin Baillaud. After him are Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji, Margherita Hack, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, James Ferguson, William Cranch Bond, and Bertil Lindblad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Charles T. Kowal ranks 178. Before him are James Herbert Brennan, Mohammed Magariaf, James L. Brooks, Dan Hedaya, José van Dam, and Haing S. Ngor. After him are Fouad Twal, Natalia Makarova, Anatoliy Bondarchuk, Michael Parks, Louis Pilot, and John Grinder. Among people deceased in 2011, Charles T. Kowal ranks 125. Before him are Nancy Wake, Thor Vilhjálmsson, Roman Opałka, Bo Carpelan, Andy Whitfield, and Kiki Håkansson. After him are Lena Nyman, Josefa Iloilo, Charles Napier, Abdul Fatah Younis, Anatole Abragam, and Varkey Vithayathil.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles T. Kowal ranks 3,460 out of 20,380. Before him are Chet Atkins (1924), Andy Kaufman (1949), Dean Norris (1963), Jerry Orbach (1935), Doug Collins (1951), and Frank Vincent (1939). After him are Robert Garrett (1875), Ben McKenzie (1978), Dana Delany (1956), Jerome Robbins (1918), Robert Blake (1933), and James Harden (1989).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Charles T. Kowal ranks 44. Before him are Joel Hastings Metcalf (1866), Seth Barnes Nicholson (1891), George Ellery Hale (1868), Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), and William Wallace Campbell (1862). After him are William Cranch Bond (1789), Halton Arp (1927), Elizabeth Roemer (1929), Sandra Faber (1944), Daniel Kirkwood (1814), and Antonia Maury (1866).

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