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Leo Anton Karl de Ball

1853 - 1916

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Leo Anton Karl de Ball (November 23, 1853 – December 12, 1916) was a German-Austrian astronomer. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center as "K. de Ball" for his (sole) asteroid discovery, but seems to be best known as Leo de Ball. He was born at Lobberich in the Rhineland, in the Kingdom of Prussia. He studied in Bonn and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in 1877. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leo Anton Karl de Ball is the 421st most popular astronomer (up from 425th in 2019), the 4,208th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,544th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Leo Anton Karl de Ball ranks 421 out of 644Before him are George Herbig, Zinaida Aksentyeva, Carlyle S. Beals, Stéphane Javelle, Odette Bancilhon, and Herbert Friedman. After him are Marcel Minnaert, Janet Akyüz Mattei, Jean Richer, Mary Adela Blagg, Christopher Hansteen, and Catherine Cesarsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Leo Anton Karl de Ball ranks 79Before him are José Santos Zelaya, Ernest Fenollosa, Jules Lemaître, Isidor Kaufmann, Heinrich Lammasch, and Maria Wiik. After him are Julia Beck, Lillie Langtry, Pierre Marie, Heinrich Kayser, Julian Fałat, and Emilio Aceval. Among people deceased in 1916, Leo Anton Karl de Ball ranks 114Before him are Albert Chmielowski, Walter Sutton, George Huntington, Chen Qimei, Henri Harpignies, and Rik Wouters. After him are Josiah Royce, Oskar Gripenberg, Karl Klindworth, Maksim Kovalevsky, Alaiza Pashkevich, and Germán Riesco.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Leo Anton Karl de Ball ranks 4,210 out of 7,253Before him are Saskia Esken (1961), Princess Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg (1864), Jan Boeckhorst (1604), Horst Frank (1929), Eduard Künneke (1885), and Amalie Dietrich (1821). After him are Helma Sanders-Brahms (1940), Ellen Braumüller (1910), Friedrich Dickel (1913), Gustav Mie (1868), Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897), and Paul Pietsch (1911).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Leo Anton Karl de Ball ranks 63Before him are Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), Albrecht Unsöld (1905), Gustav Spörer (1822), Ludwig Biermann (1907), Friedrich Tietjen (1834), and Georg Marcgrave (1610). After him are Cuno Hoffmeister (1892), Erika Böhm-Vitense (1923), Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), Joseph Helffrich (1890), Hans-Emil Schuster (1934), and Ernst Hartwig (1851).