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Wilhelm Tempel

1821 - 1889

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Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel (4 December 1821 – 16 March 1889), normally known as Wilhelm Tempel, was a German astronomer who worked in Marseille until the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, then later moved to Italy. Tempel was born at Niedercunnersdorf, Saxony. He was a prolific discoverer of comets, discovering or co-discovering 21 in all, including Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, now known to be the parent body of the Leonid meteor shower, and 9P/Tempel, the target of the NASA probe Deep Impact in 2005. Other periodic comets that bear his name include 10P/Tempel and 11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR. In 1861, he was awarded the Lalande Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Tempel is the 78th most popular astronomer (up from 97th in 2019), the 745th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,176th in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Wilhelm Tempel ranks 78 out of 644. Before him are Vera Rubin, Albert Marth, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Pierre Méchain, Pierre Janssen, and Russell Alan Hulse. After him are Ejnar Hertzsprung, Antony Hewish, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, John Russell Hind, Percival Lowell, and Arthur B. McDonald.

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Among people born in 1821, Wilhelm Tempel ranks 11. Before him are Rudolf Virchow, August Schleicher, Auguste Mariette, Lola Montez, Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, and Elizabeth Blackwell. After him are Louis Vuitton, Pauline Viardot, Charles Tupper, Richard Francis Burton, Anita Garibaldi, and Johann Josef Loschmidt. Among people deceased in 1889, Wilhelm Tempel ranks 14. Before him are Luís I of Portugal, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Father Damien, Alexandre Cabanel, Mihai Eminescu, and Nikolay Chernyshevsky. After him are Princess Eugénie of Sweden, Wilkie Collins, Charles III, Prince of Monaco, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Maria Mitchell, and Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Tempel ranks 745 out of 7,253. Before him are Thomas Bach (1953), John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1658), Magda Schneider (1909), Hugo Ball (1886), Reinhard Gehlen (1902), and Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria (1821). After him are Michael Thonet (1796), Otto Rehhagel (1938), Sandra (1962), Otto Grotewohl (1894), Hugh of Saint Victor (1096), and Andrew Wiles (1953).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Wilhelm Tempel ranks 14. Before him are Wilhelm Schickard (1592), Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793), Walter Baade (1893), Johann Franz Encke (1791), Max Wolf (1863), and Simon Marius (1573). After him are Karl Ludwig Harding (1765), Petrus Apianus (1495), Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), Arthur Auwers (1838), David Fabricius (1564), and Johann Elert Bode (1747).

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