ASTRONOMER

Ernest Leonard Johnson

1891 - 1977

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Ernest Leonard Johnson (1891–1977) was a South African astronomer and a former staff member of the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is known for the discovery of 18 asteroids between 1946–1951, as well as several comets. On 25 August 1949, he discovered 48P/Johnson, a periodic comet expected to pass no closer than 1.2 to 1.3 AU from our planet in 2025. Johnson received the "Donohoe Comet Medal" twice: 40  before retiring in 1956. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernest Leonard Johnson is the 442nd most popular astronomer (up from 492nd in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 135th in 2019) and the most popular South African Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Ernest Leonard Johnson ranks 442 out of 644Before him are Erika Böhm-Vitense, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Otto August Rosenberger, Robert Julius Trumpler, Ralph Copeland, and Nicolas Fatio de Duillier. After him are Catherine Wolfe Bruce, Willem Jacob Luyten, Lipót Schulhof, Schelte J. Bus, Paul W. Merrill, and Vladimir Kotelnikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Ernest Leonard Johnson ranks 205Before him are Emil Julius Gumbel, Eva Kotchever, Otilio Ulate Blanco, Mae Busch, Nikoloz Muskhelishvili, and Karl Allmendinger. After him are Harry Cohn, Virgilio Fossati, Eino Leino, Gustaf Dyrssen, Issay Dobrowen, and Françoise Rosay. Among people deceased in 1977, Ernest Leonard Johnson ranks 178Before him are Brian McGuire, Vladimir Tributs, Paul Bernays, Edgar Basel, Jean Hagen, and José Planas. After him are Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, Franco Rol, Ulises Poirier, Boris Markov, and Alexander Galich.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Ernest Leonard Johnson ranks 105 out of 454Before him are Julius Malema (1981), Bruce Grobbelaar (1957), Renée Schuurman (1939), Jamie Uys (1921), Claude Chevalley (1909), and Hugh Masekela (1939). After him are Alfred Swift (1931), Oscar Pistorius (1986), Max Gluckman (1911), Alan Paton (1903), John Kani (1943), and Helen Suzman (1917).

Among ASTRONOMERS In South Africa

Among astronomers born in South Africa, Ernest Leonard Johnson ranks 1