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Nikolai Chernykh

1931 - 2004

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Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh (Russian: Никола́й Степа́нович Черны́х, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj sʲtʲɪˈpanəvʲɪtɕ tɕɪrˈnɨx]; 6 October 1931 – 25 May 2004) was a Russian-born Soviet astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyi, Crimea. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Chernykh is the 177th most popular astronomer (down from 136th in 2019), the 560th most popular biography from Russia (down from 518th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Nikolai Chernykh ranks 177 out of 644. Before him are Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, James Craig Watson, Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Robert Grant Aitken, Franz Xaver von Zach, and Guillaume Bigourdan. After him are Jean Picard, Henry Draper, Seleucus of Seleucia, Adriaan Blaauw, Edwin Ernest Salpeter, and Johann Heinrich von Mädler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Nikolai Chernykh ranks 105. Before him are E. C. George Sudarshan, Pierre Nora, Stig Anderson, Luís Cabral, Tomi Ungerer, and Caroline Graham. After him are Guido de Marco, Jack Swigert, Ted Kotcheff, Alfred Schmidt, Pascal Lissouba, and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Among people deceased in 2004, Nikolai Chernykh ranks 69. Before him are Uta Hagen, Nino Manfredi, Johnny Ramone, Elmer Bernstein, Richard Avedon, and Roque Máspoli. After him are Boris Trajkovski, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Miki Matsubara, Marika Rökk, Lennart Bernadotte, and Serge Reggiani.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Chernykh ranks 560 out of 3,761. Before him are Natalia Pushkina (1812), Xenia of Saint Petersburg (1719), Gabdulkhay Akhatov (1927), Markian Popov (1902), Konstantin Simonov (1915), and Patriarch Filaret of Moscow (1553). After him are Viktor Chernov (1873), Mikhail Skobelev (1843), Yakov Sinai (1935), Nikolai Ge (1831), Anund Gårdske (1004), and Viktor Abakumov (1908).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Russia

Among astronomers born in Russia, Nikolai Chernykh ranks 1. After him are Lyudmila Chernykh (1935), Sergey Belyavsky (1883), Hermann von Struve (1854), Lyudmila Zhuravleva (1946), Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev (1908), Benjamin Jekhowsky (1881), Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (1935), Vera Gaze (1899), Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908), Aristarkh Belopolsky (1854), and Lyudmila Karachkina (1948).

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