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Otto Heckmann

1901 - 1983

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Otto Hermann Leopold Heckmann (June 23, 1901 – May 13, 1983) was a German mathematician and astronomer, director of the Hamburg Observatory from 1941 to 1962, after which he became the first director of the European Southern Observatory. He actively contributed to the creation of the third issue of the Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog. He also contributed to cosmology based on the fundamentals of general relativity, and in 1942 wrote the book Theorien der Kosmologie. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Heckmann is the 481st most popular astronomer (down from 408th in 2019), the 4,631st most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,440th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Otto Heckmann ranks 481 out of 644. Before him are Edward Pigott, Lyudmila Karachkina, Dilhan Eryurt, David L. Rabinowitz, Richard Schorr, and William Frederick Denning. After him are Adam Riess, Patrick Moore, Lutz D. Schmadel, William de Wiveleslie Abney, Edward S. Holden, and Walter Frederick Gale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Otto Heckmann ranks 252. Before him are Ivar Lo-Johansson, Suzanne Lilar, Pedro Benítez, René Dubos, James Dunn, and Paul Martin. After him are Mickey Marcus, Mildred Davis, Dorothy Hansine Andersen, Heðin Brú, Marieluise Fleißer, and Igor Ilyinsky. Among people deceased in 1983, Otto Heckmann ranks 189. Before him are Clara Nunes, Fyodor Abramov, Joan Hackett, Manuel Scorza, Odd Lundberg, and Ernest Libérati. After him are Szolem Mandelbrojt, James Workman, Sven Jacobsson, Adalberts Bubenko, Paolo Pedretti, and Bo Ekelund.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Heckmann ranks 4,634 out of 7,253. Before him are Gerhard Ritter (1888), Albrecht Becker (1906), Oskar von Miller (1855), Richard Schorr (1867), Ellen von Unwerth (1954), and Rudolf Scharping (1947). After him are Melchior Vulpius (1570), Manfred Krug (1937), Burghart Klaußner (1949), Sigmund Haringer (1908), Andriy Taran (1955), and Johann Faulhaber (1580).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Otto Heckmann ranks 72. Before him are Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), Joseph Helffrich (1890), Hans-Emil Schuster (1934), Ernst Hartwig (1851), Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (1788), and Richard Schorr (1867). After him are Lutz D. Schmadel (1942), Arno Arthur Wachmann (1902), Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912), Alfred Bohrmann (1904), Eva Grebel (1966), and Anna Frebel (1980).

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