Lipót Schulhof

Lipót Schulhof

Lipót Schulhof (12 March 1847 in Baja – October 1921 in Paris; Hungarian: Schulhof Lipót; German: Leopold Schulhof or Schulhoff; French: Léopold Schulhof) was a Hungarian-Jewish astronomer, born in the Austrian Empire, who first worked at the Vienna Observatory and later spent most of his time at the Paris Observatory, observing comets and asteroids. He provided a prediction for the 1893 return of comet 15P/Finlay, discovered the main-belt asteroid 147 Protogeneia in 1875, and was awarded the Lalande Prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 1893. Schulhof won the Lalande Prize again in 1920 for his calculation, assisted by Joseph Bossert, of the orbit of the periodic comet 12P/Pons–Brooks, discovered in 1812 by Pons. Schulhof calculated the orbits of many asteroids and comets, taking perturbative interactions into account. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lipót Schulhof is the 445th most popular astronomer (up from 486th in 2019). (up from 4,203rd in 2019)