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Max Wolf

1863 - 1932

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Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf (21 June 1863 – 3 October 1932) was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography. He was the chairman of astronomy at the University of Heidelberg and director of the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory from 1902 until his death in 1932. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Wolf is the 68th most popular astronomer (down from 56th in 2019), the 678th most popular biography from Germany (up from 706th in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Astronomer.

Max Wolf was a German astronomer and physicist who is most famous for his work on the Milky Way and discovering the first spectroscopic binary stars.

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Among astronomers, Max Wolf ranks 68 out of 644. Before him are Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Antonie Pannekoek, John Flamsteed, Fred Hoyle, Gerard Kuiper, and Johann Franz Encke. After him are Edward Emerson Barnard, Annibale de Gasparis, Simon Marius, Vera Rubin, Albert Marth, and Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Max Wolf ranks 23. Before him are Joaquín Sorolla, Austen Chamberlain, Gaston Doumergue, Wilhelm Marx, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, and Alexandre Yersin. After him are Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Werner Sombart, Vladimir Vernadsky, Reginald Innes Pocock, George Santayana, and Leo Baekeland. Among people deceased in 1932, Max Wolf ranks 16. Before him are King C. Gillette, Paul Doumer, Augusta, Lady Gregory, Gustav Meyrink, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, and Alberto Santos-Dumont. After him are Edgar Wallace, George Eastman, Errico Malatesta, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Joseph Babinski, and Kang Pan-sok.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Wolf ranks 678 out of 7,253. Before him are Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1819), Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (1505), Klaus Fuchs (1911), Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern (1811), Max Reger (1873), and Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895). After him are Princess Caroline of Great Britain (1713), Erwin Neher (1944), Felix Hoffmann (1868), Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805), Karl Wolff (1900), and Ottmar Hitzfeld (1949).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Max Wolf ranks 12. Before him are Johann Gottfried Galle (1812), Johann Bayer (1572), Wilhelm Schickard (1592), Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793), Walter Baade (1893), and Johann Franz Encke (1791). After him are Simon Marius (1573), Wilhelm Tempel (1821), Karl Ludwig Harding (1765), Petrus Apianus (1495), Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), and Arthur Auwers (1838).

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