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Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth

1892 - 1979

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Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (4 April 1892 in Heidelberg – 6 May 1979 in Heidelberg) was a German astronomer and a prolific discoverer of 395 minor planets. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth is the 147th most popular astronomer (down from 95th in 2019), the 1,436th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,151st in 2019) and the 28th most popular German Astronomer.

Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth is most famous for his discovery of the periodic table. He was a German chemist and mineralogist.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth ranks 147 out of 644Before him are Carolyn S. Shoemaker, William Henry Pickering, George Darwin, Oskar Backlund, Williamina Fleming, and Antonio Abetti. After him are Wilhelm Beer, Hermann Carl Vogel, Adelard of Bath, James Dunlop, Eugène Joseph Delporte, and Maslama al-Majriti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth ranks 71Before him are Germaine Tailleferre, Harry Stack Sullivan, Manuel Roxas, Mikhail Gurevich, Tazio Nuvolari, and Rafael Moreno Aranzadi. After him are Alfonsina Storni, Marcel Dassault, Günther Blumentritt, César Vallejo, Andrés Nin Pérez, and J. B. S. Haldane. Among people deceased in 1979, Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth ranks 51Before him are Otto Robert Frisch, Jean-Marie Villot, Alfredo Ottaviani, Peggy Guggenheim, Louis Chiron, and Nicholas Ray. After him are Louis Durey, Conrad Hilton, Richard Rodgers, Charles W. Morris, Walther Gerlach, and Pier Luigi Nervi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth ranks 1,436 out of 7,253Before him are Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856), Toni Kroos (1990), Albrecht Penck (1858), Rudolf Brandt (1909), Franz von Hipper (1863), and Brigitte Helm (1906). After him are Jakob Wassermann (1873), Wilhelm Beer (1797), Bernhard Rust (1883), Hans Leo Hassler (1564), Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg (1708), and Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (1650).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth ranks 28Before him are Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670), Heinrich Schwabe (1789), Hermann Goldschmidt (1802), Reinhard Genzel (1952), Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745), and Wilhelm von Biela (1782). After him are Wilhelm Beer (1797), Hermann Carl Vogel (1841), Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921), Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591), Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794), and Tobias Mayer (1723).