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Klim Churyumov

1937 - 2016

Klim Churyumov

Klim Ivanovich Churyumov (Ukrainian: Клим Іванович Чурюмов; 19 February 1937 – 14 October 2016) was a Soviet and Ukrainian astronomer. He was the director of the Kyiv Planetarium, a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the International Astronomical Union, of the New York Academy of Sciences, the editor of the magazine Our Skies (Ukrainian: Наше Небо) in 2006–2009, the president of the Ukrainian Society of amateur astronomy and the author of books for children. In 1969, he discovered, with Svetlana Gerasimenko, the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko; on 12 November 2014, the Rosetta space mission landed its Philae spacecraft on its surface. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Klim Churyumov is the 341st most popular astronomer (down from 254th in 2019), the 510th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 424th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Ukrainian Astronomer.

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Among astronomers, Klim Churyumov ranks 341 out of 644. Before him are Beatrice Tinsley, James Challis, Julius Schiller, Andronicus of Cyrrhus, Heinrich Kreutz, and James L. Elliot. After him are Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Fang Lizhi, Rudolph Minkowski, Hugo von Seeliger, Walter Lewin, and Carl A. Wirtanen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Klim Churyumov ranks 251. Before him are Wanda Jackson, Ron Clarke, Ingrid Pitt, Aslan Usoyan, Vlatko Marković, and Boris Yegorov. After him are Márta Rudas, Charlie Haden, Raymundo Damasceno Assis, José Augusto, Giacomo Rizzolatti, and Givi Chokheli. Among people deceased in 2016, Klim Churyumov ranks 227. Before him are Lars Gustafsson, Vladica Kovačević, Faina Melnik, Hannes Löhr, Vilmos Zsigmond, and Giovanni Coppa. After him are Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Zubaida Tharwat, Manuel Velázquez, Peter Maxwell Davies, Prince Dimitri Romanov, and Antonin Scalia.

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Wanda Jackson
MUSICIAN
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HPI: 59.49
Rank: 245
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ATHLETE
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1937 - 2016
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Rank: 251
Márta Rudas
ATHLETE
1937 - 2017
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