Lipót Schulhof, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Hungarian astronomer
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Place of Birth: Baja, Hungary
About Lipót Schulhof
- Lipót Schulhof (March 12, 1847 in Baja – October 1921 in Paris; Hungarian: Schulhof Lipót; German: Leopold Schulhof or Schulhoff; French: Léopold Schulhof) was a Hungarian-Jewish astronomer, born in the Austrian Empire, who first worked at the Vienna Observatory and later spent most of his time at the Paris Observatory, observing comets and asteroids.He provided a prediction for the 1893 return of comet 15P/Finlay, discovered the main-belt asteroid 147 Protogeneia in 1875, and was awarded the Lalande Prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 1893.
- Schulhof won the Lalande Prize again in 1920 for his calculation, assisted by Joseph Bossert, of the orbit of the periodic comet 12P/Pons–Brooks, discovered in 1812 by Pons.Schulhof calculated the orbits of many asteroids and comets, taking perturbative interactions into account.
- With his exhaustive studies of objects such as comet 27P/Crommelin and others, he advanced the recovery of lost comets as well as those of lost minor planets.The main-belt asteroid 2384 Schulhof, discovered by Marguerite Laugier in 1943, was named in his honor.
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