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Kiichirō Furukawa

1929 - 2016

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Kiichirō Furukawa (Japanese: 古川 麒一郎, Hepburn: Furukawa Kiichirō; Kunrei: Hurukawa Kiitirô, 22 July 1929 – 29 June 2016) was a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets at the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory. Furukawa was also associated with Nagoya University Department of Astrophysics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kiichirō Furukawa is the 529th most popular astronomer (up from 536th in 2019), the 1,490th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,554th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Kiichirō Furukawa ranks 529 out of 644. Before him are Yuji Hyakutake, Royal Harwood Frost, Grove Karl Gilbert, Helen Sawyer Hogg, Matvey Gusev, and Marc Aaronson. After him are Anne Sewell Young, György Kulin, David Todd Wilkinson, Ewine van Dishoeck, Frank Shu, and Kenzo Suzuki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Kiichirō Furukawa ranks 422. Before him are Vyacheslav Ivanov, Daphne Hasenjäger, Michael D. Coe, Gerry Anderson, Igor Novikov, and Saeed Jaffrey. After him are Francisco Zuluaga, Jerry Hardin, Win Tin, Chaim Potok, Sergio Cervato, and Alfredo Pérez. Among people deceased in 2016, Kiichirō Furukawa ranks 409. Before him are Heinz Ulzheimer, Laurent Pokou, Whitney Smith, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Burt Kwouk, and Tapio Mäkelä. After him are Piers Sellers, Henning Christophersen, Siegbert Horn, Wim van der Voort, Gideon Toury, and Paulo Emilio.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kiichirō Furukawa ranks 1,490 out of 6,245. Before him are Motonobu Tako (1972), Nobuhisa Isono (1974), Yoshie Kasajima (1975), Shingo Ito (1979), Masao Takemoto (1919), and Hironobu Kageyama (1961). After him are Takamine Jōkichi (1854), Tamaki Uchiyama (1972), Tomonori Tsunematsu (1976), Wataru Ota (1981), Hisakichi Toyoda (1912), and Yusuke Yoshizaki (1981).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Kiichirō Furukawa ranks 12. Before him are Hiroki Kosai (1933), Minoru Honda (1913), Kaoru Ikeya (1943), Okuro Oikawa (1896), Hiroshi Kaneda (1953), and Yuji Hyakutake (1950). After him are Kenzo Suzuki (1950), Seiji Ueda (1952), Tomimaru Okuni (1931), Takao Kobayashi (1961), Kazuro Watanabe (1955), and Kin Endate (1960).

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