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Hisashi Kimura

1870 - 1943

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Hisashi Kimura (木村 栄, Kimura Hisashi; October 4, 1870 – September 26, 1943) was a Japanese astronomer originally from Kanazawa, Ishikawa. He devoted his career to the study and measurement of variation in latitude, building upon the work of Seth Carlo Chandler, who discovered the Chandler wobble. In 1899, he became the first director of the International Latitude Observatory at Mizusawa, Japan. He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1936. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hisashi Kimura is the 457th most popular astronomer (up from 503rd in 2019), the 1,253rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,442nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Hisashi Kimura ranks 457 out of 644. Before him are Fernand Courty, Hans-Emil Schuster, Ernst Hartwig, Mary Proctor, William Robert Brooks, and Grigory Shajn. After him are Aristarkh Belopolsky, Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker, Frank Schlesinger, Kees de Jager, Avi Loeb, and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Hisashi Kimura ranks 124. Before him are Erik Adolf von Willebrand, Jędrzej Moraczewski, Lars Sonck, Štefan Banič, Jan Šrámek, and Grigory Gershuni. After him are Verner Järvinen, Lilian Gibbs, Bautista Saavedra, Henri Bouckaert, Teodor Shteingel, and Oskar Vogt. Among people deceased in 1943, Hisashi Kimura ranks 169. Before him are Maurice Hemelsoet, Estella Agsteribbe, Attila Petschauer, Adolf Urban, Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, and Lojze Grozde. After him are Géo André, Gerard De Geer, Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok, Frank Schlesinger, A. Merritt, and Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hisashi Kimura ranks 1,253 out of 6,245. Before him are Noriko Ishibashi (1970), Yoshiko Kuga (1931), Ikue Ōtani (1965), Yōichi Takahashi (1960), Kenjiro Takayanagi (1899), and Ryūsei Nakao (1951). After him are Yukio Ozaki (1858), Noboru Terada (1917), Sanpei Shirato (1932), Hisashi Kaneko (1959), Gozo Shioda (1915), and Tadashi Imai (1912).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Hisashi Kimura ranks 5. Before him are Takeshi Urata (1947), Tsutomu Seki (1930), Chushiro Hayashi (1920), and Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874). After him are Hiroki Kosai (1933), Minoru Honda (1913), Kaoru Ikeya (1943), Okuro Oikawa (1896), Hiroshi Kaneda (1953), Yuji Hyakutake (1950), and Kiichirō Furukawa (1929).

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