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Agnes Mary Clerke

1842 - 1907

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Agnes Mary Clerke (10 February 1842 – 20 January 1907) was an Irish astronomer and writer, mainly in the field of astronomy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Agnes Mary Clerke has received more than 65,704 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Agnes Mary Clerke is the 517th most popular astronomer (down from 445th in 2019), the 273rd most popular biography from Ireland (down from 229th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Irish Astronomer.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Agnes Mary Clerke ranks 517 out of 644. Before her are Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, Edwin Foster Coddington, Wilhelm Anderson, John Dobson, John Broughton, and Hans-Emil Schuster. After her are Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov, Minoru Honda, María Teresa Ruiz, John N. Bahcall, Erika Böhm-Vitense, and Korado Korlević.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Agnes Mary Clerke ranks 94. Before her are Alexander Voeikov, Alphons Czibulka, Calixa Lavallée, Albert Ladenburg, Charles W. Alcock, and Nikolai Menshutkin. After her are Mary MacKillop, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Édouard Louis Trouessart, João Barbosa Rodrigues, Robert Collett, and Charles Lapworth. Among people deceased in 1907, Agnes Mary Clerke ranks 95. Before her are Macario Sakay, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Charles W. Alcock, Christen Dalsgaard, Guillermo Tell Villegas, and Nikolai Menshutkin. After her are Mariano Baptista, Maxwell T. Masters, Garrett Serviss, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Sophus Bugge, and Russell A. Alger.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Agnes Mary Clerke ranks 273 out of 549. Before her are Robert O'Hara Burke (1821), Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865), Sydney, Lady Morgan (1776), Harry Clarke (1889), Evanna Lynch (1991), and James Cecil Parke (1881). After her are William Henry Harvey (1811), Brian Downey (1951), Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet (1737), William Desmond Taylor (1872), John O'Shea (1981), and George Salmon (1819).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Ireland

Among astronomers born in Ireland, Agnes Mary Clerke ranks 5. Before her are Andrew Graham (1815), Edward Sabine (1788), Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848), and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (1865). After her are Mary Proctor (1862), Thomas Romney Robinson (1792), and Mary Ward (1827).

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