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Yuji Hyakutake

1950 - 2002

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Yuji Hyakutake (百武 裕司, Hyakutake Yūji; July 7, 1950, Shimabara, Nagasaki – April 10, 2002, Kokubu, Kagoshima) was a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered Comet C/1996 B2, also known as Comet Hyakutake on January 31, 1996, while using 25×150 binoculars. Hyakutake graduated from the Kyushu Sangyo University as a photography major and started working at a newspaper in Fukuoka. He first became interested in astronomy after seeing Comet Ikeya–Seki in 1965. He began searching for comets in 1989. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yuji Hyakutake is the 523rd most popular astronomer (down from 494th in 2019), the 1,450th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,397th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Yuji Hyakutake ranks 523 out of 644. Before him are Okuro Oikawa, Hiroshi Kaneda, Agnes Mary Clerke, Charles Augustus Young, John Broughton, and Barnaba Oriani. After him are Royal Harwood Frost, Grove Karl Gilbert, Helen Sawyer Hogg, Matvey Gusev, Marc Aaronson, and Kiichirō Furukawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Yuji Hyakutake ranks 449. Before him are David Lloyd, Jorma Ollila, Annegret Richter, Aloma Wright, Loris Kessel, and Antony Gormley. After him are Kirka, Ferenc Mészáros, José Ángel Gurría, Lothar Kurbjuweit, Zvonimir Serdarušić, and Ken Alibek. Among people deceased in 2002, Yuji Hyakutake ranks 256. Before him are Sándor Mátrai, Pasieguito, Damon Knight, Dee Brown, Hans-Peter Tschudi, and Carmelo Bene. After him are Vernon A. Walters, John R. Pierce, Jan de Hartog, Peter Blau, Hellmuth Marx, and Chaim Potok.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yuji Hyakutake ranks 1,450 out of 6,245. Before him are Eiichi Uemura (1975), Kitamura Tokoku (1868), Toshiyuki Morikawa (1967), Shunpei Uto (1918), Kazuyoshi Hoshino (1947), and Wataru Endo (1993). After him are Chikage Awashima (1924), Maki Haneta (1972), Toshiaki Imai (1954), Hiroshi Soejima (1959), Kenji Goto (1967), and Hirofumi Nakasone (1945).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Yuji Hyakutake ranks 11. Before him are Hisashi Kimura (1870), Hiroki Kosai (1933), Minoru Honda (1913), Kaoru Ikeya (1943), Okuro Oikawa (1896), and Hiroshi Kaneda (1953). After him are Kiichirō Furukawa (1929), Kenzo Suzuki (1950), Seiji Ueda (1952), Tomimaru Okuni (1931), Takao Kobayashi (1961), and Kazuro Watanabe (1955).

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