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Elizabeth Roemer

1929 - 2016

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Elizabeth "Pat" Roemer (September 4, 1929 – April 8, 2016) was an American astronomer and educator who specialized in astronomy with a particular focus on comets and minor planets. She was well-known for the recovery of lost comets, as well as for her discovery of two asteroids, the co-discovery of Jupiter's moon Themisto, and for the asteroid 1657 Roemera that was named in her honor. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elizabeth Roemer is the 258th most popular astronomer (up from 407th in 2019), the 3,697th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,238th in 2019) and the 47th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among astronomers, Elizabeth Roemer ranks 258 out of 644. Before her are Bertil Lindblad, Halton Arp, Wang Zhenyi, Maximilian Hell, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, and Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner. After her are Carl Charlier, Timocharis, Luboš Kohoutek, Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Dominique, comte de Cassini, and Vladimir Albitsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Elizabeth Roemer ranks 188. Before her are Fred Sinowatz, Claude Rich, Bernard Williams, John C. Bogle, Mariama Bâ, and Sixten Jernberg. After her are Anne Meara, Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, Leila Abashidze, Elio Petri, Jürgen Ehlers, and Charles Tilly. Among people deceased in 2016, Elizabeth Roemer ranks 184. Before her are Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, Bill Nunn, Rudi Altig, Javier Echevarría Rodríguez, Louis Pilot, and Peter Hans Kolvenbach. After her are Hassan Al-Turabi, Papa Wemba, Zdravko Tolimir, Željko Čajkovski, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, and Jean-Baptiste Bagaza.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elizabeth Roemer ranks 3,697 out of 20,380. Before her are Kirk Acevedo (1971), Elizabeth Monroe (1768), James P. Allison (1948), Chad Smith (1961), Barbara Jones (1937), and Blake Lively (1987). After her are David Ogden Stiers (1942), Richard Lester (1932), Teresa Wright (1918), Charles Coburn (1877), Judy Sheindlin (1942), and Margaux Hemingway (1954).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Elizabeth Roemer ranks 47. Before her are Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), William Wallace Campbell (1862), Charles T. Kowal (1940), William Cranch Bond (1789), and Halton Arp (1927). After her are Sandra Faber (1944), Daniel Kirkwood (1814), Antonia Maury (1866), Heber Doust Curtis (1872), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), and James W. Christy (1938).

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