ASTRONOMER

Okuro Oikawa

1896 - 1970

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Okuro Oikawa (及川 奥郎, Oikawa Okurō; 1896–1970) was a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovered 8 asteroids between 1927 and 1929. The outer main-belt asteroid 2667 Oikawa was named in his memory. Naming citation was published on 1 June 1996 (M.P.C. 27329). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Okuro Oikawa is the 517th most popular astronomer (up from 524th in 2019), the 1,434th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,522nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Okuro Oikawa ranks 517 out of 644. Before him are Ľudmila Pajdušáková, William Christie, Warren De la Rue, Alfred Bohrmann, Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist, and William Rutter Dawes. After him are Hiroshi Kaneda, Agnes Mary Clerke, Charles Augustus Young, John Broughton, Barnaba Oriani, and Yuji Hyakutake.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Okuro Oikawa ranks 224. Before him are José Vidal, Margarete Adler, Walter Breuning, Lotte Jacobi, Anton Walbrook, and Hermann Jónasson. After him are Alberto Vargas, Luiz Vinhaes, Natalie Talmadge, Esteban Canal, Ralph Bagnold, and Charles Pahud de Mortanges. Among people deceased in 1970, Okuro Oikawa ranks 215. Before him are John O'Hara, Leandro Faggin, Ludovico Bidoglio, Haakon Sörvik, István Fekete, and Matthias Heidemann. After him are Alexandros Othonaios, Abdelaziz Ben Tifour, Slim Harpo, Lev Kassil, Panagiotis Pipinelis, and Shaken Aimanov.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Okuro Oikawa ranks 1,434 out of 6,245. Before him are Takeshi Koshida (1960), Mami Kaneda (1968), Akira Ishida (1967), Kei Sugimoto (1982), Tamlyn Tomita (1966), and Yukihiro Matsumoto (1965). After him are Atsushi Sakurai (1966), Jiro Sato (1908), Daichi Fukushima (1977), Ryo Kawasaki (1947), Hiroshi Kaneda (1953), and Homare Sawa (1978).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Okuro Oikawa ranks 9. Before him are Chushiro Hayashi (1920), Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874), Hisashi Kimura (1870), Hiroki Kosai (1933), Minoru Honda (1913), and Kaoru Ikeya (1943). After him are Hiroshi Kaneda (1953), Yuji Hyakutake (1950), Kiichirō Furukawa (1929), Kenzo Suzuki (1950), Seiji Ueda (1952), and Tomimaru Okuni (1931).

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