ASTRONOMER

Henry E. Holt

1929 - 2019

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Henry E. Holt (27 September 1929 - 5 May 2019) was an American astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets, who has worked as a planetary geologist at the United States Geological Survey and Northern Arizona University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry E. Holt is the 401st most popular astronomer (down from 383rd in 2019), the 5,901st most popular biography from United States (down from 5,818th in 2019) and the 76th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Henry E. Holt ranks 401 out of 644Before him are James Gunn, Paris Pişmiş, Gustav Spörer, Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Viktor Knorre, and Alvan Graham Clark. After him are Dorothea Klumpke, Ludwig Biermann, Geoffrey Burbidge, Jill Tarter, Michael E. Brown, and Bart Bok.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Henry E. Holt ranks 301Before him are Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, Haruo Nakajima, Don Murray, Hubert Dreyfus, Lúcio Lara, and Jean Pickering. After him are Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, József Tóth, Bob Hawke, Karl-Erik Palmér, Rolan Bykov, and Slavko Avsenik. Among people deceased in 2019, Henry E. Holt ranks 266Before him are Olavi Mannonen, Jorma Kinnunen, Donald Keene, Paolo Sardi, José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, and Luciano De Crescenzo. After him are Sid Haig, Dimitar Dobrev, Robert Waseige, Bayram Şit, José Nápoles, and Gene Wolfe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry E. Holt ranks 5,901 out of 20,380Before him are Charles F. Brush (1849), Diahnne Abbott (1945), Al Taliaferro (1905), Cynthia Rhodes (1956), John Lynch (1952), and Dot Jones (1964). After him are Helen Morgan (1900), Christine Lahti (1950), Sid Haig (1939), Yoshi Oyakawa (1933), Dorothea Klumpke (1861), and Peter Sarsgaard (1971).

Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Henry E. Holt ranks 76Before him are Brian Schmidt (1967), James Edward Keeler (1857), Margaret Geller (1947), Harold D. Babcock (1882), James Gunn (1938), and Alvan Graham Clark (1832). After him are Dorothea Klumpke (1861), Jill Tarter (1944), Michael E. Brown (1965), George Herbig (1920), Herbert Friedman (1916), and Henry L. Giclas (1910).