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Adelaide Ames

1900 - 1932

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Adelaide Ames (June 3, 1900 – June 26, 1932) was an American astronomer and research assistant at Harvard University. She was best known for her work on detailed surveys of the brightest extra-galactic spiral nebulae. She contributed to the study of galaxies with her co-authorship of A Survey of the External Galaxies Brighter Than the Thirteenth Magnitude, which was later known as the Shapley-Ames catalog. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adelaide Ames has received more than 34,469 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Adelaide Ames is the 580th most popular astronomer, the 11,748th most popular biography from United States and the 121st most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Adelaide Ames ranks 580 out of 644. Before her are Christian Pollas, Kin Endate, Kenzo Suzuki, Mary Watson Whitney, James Ferguson, and Silvia Torres-Peimbert. After her are Madge Adam, Maura Tombelli, Arnold Wolfendale, Masayuki Yanai, Tomimaru Okuni, and Stefano Sposetti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Adelaide Ames ranks 324. Before her are Helen Gahagan Douglas, Roberto Grau, Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, Andy Auld, Edna Best, and Martita Hunt. After her are Preston Foster, Mary MacLaren, Ian Hunter, Valerian Gracias, Natalie Schafer, and Ruth Clifford. Among people deceased in 1932, Adelaide Ames ranks 145. Before her are Peder Kolstad, Väinö Siikaniemi, Charles Le Goffic, Virginie Hériot, Edward Barrett, and Dorabji Tata. After her are Fred Yates, Sol Plaatje, Outram Bangs, Edith Cowan, Major Taylor, and Robert Manson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Adelaide Ames ranks 11,748 out of 20,380. Before her are John M. Fabian (1939), Shauna Grant (1963), Wendy B. Lawrence (1959), Austin Stowell (1984), Shirley Scott (1934), and Daniel Schmidt (1992). After her are Irving Bacon (1893), Guy Mitchell (1927), Marguerite Chapman (1918), Jimmie Johnson (1975), Les Claypool (1963), and Chris Coons (1963).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Adelaide Ames ranks 121. Before her are David L. Rabinowitz (1960), Peter Goldreich (1939), A. E. Douglass (1867), Margaret Harwood (1885), Christian Pollas (1947), and Mary Watson Whitney (1847). After her are John Huchra (1948), Jan Kleyna (2000), Dorrit Hoffleit (1907), Geoffrey Marcy (1954), Chad Trujillo (1973), and James Gunn (1938).

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