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Erika Böhm-Vitense

1923 - 2017

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Erika Helga Ruth Böhm-Vitense (June 3, 1923 – January 21, 2017) was a German-born American astrophysicist known for her work on Cepheid variables and convection in stellar atmospheres. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erika Böhm-Vitense is the 436th most popular astronomer (up from 522nd in 2019), the 4,301st most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,285th in 2019) and the 65th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Erika Böhm-Vitense ranks 436 out of 644. Before her are Jane Luu, Henry L. Giclas, Herbert Hall Turner, Cuno Hoffmeister, Adrien Auzout, and Horace W. Babcock. After her are Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Otto August Rosenberger, Robert Julius Trumpler, Ralph Copeland, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, and Ernest Leonard Johnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Erika Böhm-Vitense ranks 273. Before her are Alice Coachman, Henryk Gulbinowicz, Juvenal Amarijo, Ennio de Concini, Simeon ten Holt, and Isao Kimura. After her are Gordon R. Dickson, Jean Hagen, Norberto Méndez, Alfredo Nobre da Costa, Gabriel Alonso, and Gerrit Voorting. Among people deceased in 2017, Erika Böhm-Vitense ranks 322. Before her are Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Eugène Parlier, Yaakov Neeman, Hans Alfredson, Karl Stotz, and Heinz Schneiter. After her are Udupi Ramachandra Rao, Carlos Alberto Silva, Chiquito de la Calzada, Darlene Cates, Brad Harris, and Lola Albright.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erika Böhm-Vitense ranks 4,303 out of 7,253. Before her are Marc Forster (1969), Emil Julius Gumbel (1891), Wilhelm Bauer (1822), Hilde Schrader (1910), Stefan Kuntz (1962), and Elisabeth Langgässer (1899). After her are Gotthard Handrick (1908), Robert Jungk (1913), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927), Martin Bangemann (1934), Alfred Landé (1888), and Therese Giehse (1898).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Erika Böhm-Vitense ranks 65. Before her are Gustav Spörer (1822), Ludwig Biermann (1907), Friedrich Tietjen (1834), Georg Marcgrave (1610), Leo Anton Karl de Ball (1853), and Cuno Hoffmeister (1892). After her are Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), Joseph Helffrich (1890), Hans-Emil Schuster (1934), Ernst Hartwig (1851), Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (1788), and Richard Schorr (1867).

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