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Vera Gaze

1899 - 1954

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Vera Fedorovna Gaze (Russian: Вера Фёдоровна Газе; 29 December 1899 – 3 October 1954) was a Russian astronomer who studied emission nebula and minor planets. She discovered around 150 new nebulae and was posthumously honored by the minor planet 2388 Gaze and the Gaze Crater on Venus, both of which are named after her. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vera Gaze is the 391st most popular astronomer (up from 547th in 2019), the 1,409th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,376th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Vera Gaze ranks 391 out of 644Before her are Christian August Friedrich Peters, Ercole Dembowski, James Edward Keeler, Albrecht Unsöld, Margaret Geller, and Harold D. Babcock. After her are Nathaniel Bliss, Louis Boyer, Chushiro Hayashi, James Gunn, Paris Pişmiş, and Gustav Spörer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Vera Gaze ranks 183Before her are Harold Osborn, Ralf Törngren, Edward Chamberlin, Zhang Daqian, Arvīds Pelše, and Dora Gerson. After her are Jón Leifs, Max Petitpierre, Gerald Moore, Vince Gallagher, Richard Hartshorne, and Alfred Blalock. Among people deceased in 1954, Vera Gaze ranks 101Before her are Mikimoto Kōkichi, Mikhail Prishvin, Leonard Eugene Dickson, Hella Wuolijoki, John Lennard-Jones, and Pyotr Leshchenko. After her are Jacques Mieses, Alberto Braglia, Zofia Nałkowska, B. C. Forbes, Agus Salim, and Theodor Loos.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vera Gaze ranks 1,409 out of 3,761Before her are Alexander Petrov (1799), Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin (1859), Vitaly Sevastyanov (1935), Eugen Slutsky (1880), Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933), and Igor Sechin (1960). After her are Julia Volkova (1985), Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov (1874), Viktor Yerofeyev (1947), Boris Grebenshchikov (1953), Nikolai Valuev (1973), and Hermann Goetz (1840).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Russia

Among astronomers born in Russia, Vera Gaze ranks 9Before her are Sergey Belyavsky (1883), Hermann von Struve (1854), Lyudmila Zhuravleva (1946), Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev (1908), Benjamin Jekhowsky (1881), and Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (1935). After her are Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908), Aristarkh Belopolsky (1854), Lyudmila Karachkina (1948), Pelageya Shajn (1894), Matvey Gusev (1826), and Karl Ludwig Littrow (1811).