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Viktor Knorre

1840 - 1919

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Viktor Karlovich Knorre (Russian: Виктор Карлович Кнорре; 4 October 1840 – 25 August 1919) was a Russian astronomer of German ethnic origin. He worked in Nikolaev, Pulkovo and Berlin and is best known for having discovered 158 Koronis and three other minor planets. Knorre's father, Karl Friedrich Knorre, and grandfather, Ernst Friedrich Knorre, were also prominent astronomers. Recently, the main-belt asteroid 14339 Knorre was named in honor of the three generations of Knorre astronomers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Viktor Knorre is the 399th most popular astronomer (down from 354th in 2019), the 582nd most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 613th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Ukrainian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Viktor Knorre ranks 399 out of 644. Before him are Louis Boyer, Chushiro Hayashi, James Gunn, Paris Pişmiş, Gustav Spörer, and Kiyotsugu Hirayama. After him are Alvan Graham Clark, Henry E. Holt, Dorothea Klumpke, Ludwig Biermann, Geoffrey Burbidge, and Jill Tarter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Viktor Knorre ranks 69. Before him are Victorino de la Plaza, Célestine Galli-Marié, Yaa Asantewaa, Kazimierz Alchimowicz, Hermann Goetz, and Marko Kropyvnytskyi. After him are André Gill, William Henry Conley, Hilarión Daza, Franco Faccio, Chief Joseph, and Charles Warren. Among people deceased in 1919, Viktor Knorre ranks 115. Before him are Alfred Deakin, José Santos Zelaya, Tibor Szamuely, Lawrence Lambe, Sotirios Versis, and Wallace Clement Sabine. After him are Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen, Amado Nervo, Melchora Aquino, Charles Conrad Abbott, Oleksandr Murashko, and Nikolay Shchors.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Viktor Knorre ranks 582 out of 1,365. Before him are Vladimir Semichastny (1924), Maria Guleghina (1959), Yuri Ilyenko (1936), Serhiy Rebrov (1974), Nicholas Charnetsky (1884), and Nikolay Girs (1820). After him are Roman Karmen (1906), Boris Mikhailov (1938), Victor Pinchuk (1960), Lev Kerbel (1917), Leonid Kadeniuk (1951), and Oleksandr Korniychuk (1905).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Ukraine

Among astronomers born in Ukraine, Viktor Knorre ranks 7. Before him are Svetlana Gerasimenko (1945), Otto Struve (1897), Tamara Smirnova (1935), Fyodor Bredikhin (1831), Iosif Shklovsky (1916), and Klim Churyumov (1937). After him are Grigory Shajn (1892).

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