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Gerard Kuiper

1905 - 1973

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Gerard Peter Kuiper ( KY-pər; born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper, Dutch: [ˈɣɛrɪt ˈpitər ˈkœypər]; 7 December 1905 – 23 December 1973) was a Dutch-American astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor. The Kuiper belt is named after him. Kuiper is considered by many to be the father of modern planetary science. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gerard Kuiper is the 66th most popular astronomer (down from 46th in 2019), the 91st most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 89th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Dutch Astronomer.

Gerard Kuiper is most famous for proposing the existence of a belt of comet-like bodies beyond Neptune.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Gerard Kuiper ranks 66 out of 644. Before him are Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, Walter Baade, Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Antonie Pannekoek, John Flamsteed, and Fred Hoyle. After him are Johann Franz Encke, Max Wolf, Edward Emerson Barnard, Annibale de Gasparis, Simon Marius, and Vera Rubin.

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Among people born in 1905, Gerard Kuiper ranks 28. Before him are Arthur Koestler, Raymond Aron, Ulf von Euler, Artem Mikoyan, Guillermo Stábile, and Władysław Gomułka. After him are Gertrude Ederle, C. P. Snow, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, George H. Hitchings, Raymond Cattell, and Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim. Among people deceased in 1973, Gerard Kuiper ranks 37. Before him are Selman Waksman, Semyon Budyonny, Gabriel Marcel, Walter Rudolf Hess, Víctor Jara, and Ingeborg Bachmann. After him are Jacques Maritain, Hans Albert Einstein, Lon Chaney Jr., Amílcar Cabral, Maurice René Fréchet, and Frank Costello.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Gerard Kuiper ranks 91 out of 1,646. Before him are William V, Prince of Orange (1748), Gerard van Honthorst (1592), Cornelius Jansen (1585), Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562), Antonie Pannekoek (1873), and Jan van Goyen (1596). After him are Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612), Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836), Rob Rensenbrink (1947), Kees van Dongen (1877), Menno Simons (1496), and Multatuli (1820).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Netherlands

Among astronomers born in Netherlands, Gerard Kuiper ranks 3. Before him are Jan Oort (1900), and Antonie Pannekoek (1873). After him are Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692), Tom Gehrels (1925), Jacobus Kapteyn (1851), Cornelis Johannes van Houten (1920), John Goodricke (1764), Adriaan Blaauw (1914), Maarten Schmidt (1929), Hendrik van Gent (1900), and Michael van Langren (1598).

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