Lipót Schulhof
| 147 Protogeneia | 10 July 1875 | Template:MPC |
Lipót Schulhof (12 March 1847 in Baja – October 1921 in Paris; Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Template:Langx) was a Hungarian-Jewish<ref>Aron Moskovits, Jewish education in Hungary (1848-1948), p. 94</ref> 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.<ref name="springer" />
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.<ref name="Gauthier-Villars" /><ref name="American-Naturalist" /> 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.<ref name="Bigourdan" /><ref name="Bureau-des-longitudes" />
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.<ref name="springer" />
The main-belt asteroid 2384 Schulhof, discovered by Marguerite Laugier in 1943, was named in his honor.<ref name="springer" />
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