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Paul Wild

1925 - 2014

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Paul Wild (German: [ˈvɪlt]; 5 October 1925 – 2 July 2014) was a Swiss astronomer and director of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern, who discovered numerous comets, asteroids and supernovae. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Wild is the 238th most popular astronomer (up from 275th in 2019), the 247th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 319th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Paul Wild ranks 238 out of 644. Before him are Tamara Smirnova, Johannes Fabricius, Robert T. A. Innes, César-François Cassini de Thury, Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio, and Wilhelm Gliese. After him are Rudolf Wolf, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, Cleomedes, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann, Josep Comas i Solà, and Alfred Fowler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Paul Wild ranks 161. Before him are Giovanni Spadolini, Rabah Bitat, Serge Moscovici, Pavel Belyayev, Bob Hastings, and Serge Dassault. After him are Donald O'Connor, Yuval Ne'eman, Louison Bobet, John DeLorean, Francisco Álvarez Martínez, and Maurice Pialat. Among people deceased in 2014, Paul Wild ranks 138. Before him are Karlheinz Deschner, Serge Moscovici, Manitas de Plata, Anatoly Berezovoy, Larry Scott, and Bob Hastings. After him are Jeremy Thorpe, Alicia Rhett, Shulamit Aloni, Cristina Deutekom, Carlo Bergonzi, and Donatas Banionis.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Paul Wild ranks 247 out of 1,015. Before him are Walther Ritz (1878), François-Alphonse Forel (1841), Stan Wawrinka (1985), Ubol Ratana (1951), Denis de Rougemont (1906), and Victor Goldschmidt (1888). After him are Johann Peter Hebel (1760), Rudolf Wolf (1816), Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884), Didier Burkhalter (1960), Ludwig Senfl (1486), and Alfred Escher (1819).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Switzerland

Among astronomers born in Switzerland, Paul Wild ranks 4. Before him are Michel Mayor (1942), Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux (1718), and Didier Queloz (1966). After him are Rudolf Wolf (1816), Johann III Bernoulli (1744), Robert Emden (1862), Robert Julius Trumpler (1886), and Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664).

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