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Freimut Börngen

1930 - 2021

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Freimut Börngen (German: [ˈfʁaɪmuːt ˈbœʁŋən]; 17 October 1930 – 19 June 2021) was a German astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets. A few sources give his first name wrongly as "Freimuth". The Minor Planet Center credits him as F. Borngen. He studied galaxies with the Schmidt telescope at the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory in Tautenburg, Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Freimut Börngen is the 329th most popular astronomer (down from 273rd in 2019), the 3,435th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,235th in 2019) and the 48th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Freimut Börngen ranks 329 out of 644. Before him are Christoph Arnold, Edward Sabine, Takeshi Urata, George Van Biesbroeck, Brian G. Marsden, and Caterina Scarpellini. After him are John Machin, Allan Sandage, Nils Christoffer Dunér, Maria Clara Eimmart, Franz Kaiser, and Beatrice Tinsley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Freimut Börngen ranks 266. Before him are The Big Bopper, Paul Mazursky, Donald Moffat, Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, Colin McDonald, and Sigge Parling. After him are Borislav Pekić, Adile Naşit, Norio Ohga, Jacques Hamel, Carmen Sevilla, and Egon Klepsch. Among people deceased in 2021, Freimut Börngen ranks 255. Before him are Leon Spinks, José Freire Falcão, John Miles, Carlos Correia, Louis Andriessen, and Judith Reisman. After him are Hilton Valentine, Clive Sinclair, Branko Mamula, Justo Tejada, Isadore Singer, and Alberto Grimaldi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Freimut Börngen ranks 3,437 out of 7,253. Before him are Karlheinz Förster (1958), Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel (1796), Gunta Stölzl (1897), Markus Merk (1962), Princess Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Philippsthal (1730), and Franz Bäke (1898). After him are John IV, Duke of Bavaria (1437), Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721), Richardis of Schwerin, Queen of Sweden (1347), Salomea of Berg (1093), Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1699), and Paul Reinecke (1872).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Freimut Börngen ranks 48. Before him are Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1835), Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834), Gottfried Kirch (1639), Christine Kirch (1697), Karl Christian Bruhns (1830), and Brian G. Marsden (1937). After him are Maria Clara Eimmart (1676), Franz Kaiser (1891), Julius Schiller (1580), Heinrich Kreutz (1854), Carl Gustav Witt (1866), and Otto Lesser (1830).

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