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Alfred Fowler

1868 - 1940

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Alfred Fowler, CBE FRS (22 March 1868, in Yorkshire – 24 June 1940) was an English astronomer and spectroscopist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Fowler has received more than 29,654 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Fowler is the 218th most popular astronomer (up from 236th in 2019), the 1,920th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,072nd in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Astronomer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 30k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Alfred Fowler ranks 218 out of 531. Before him are Seth Barnes Nicholson, Sergey Belyavsky, Martin Schwarzschild, Alexis Bouvard, Oskar Backlund, and Svetlana Gerasimenko. After him are César-François Cassini de Thury, Heber Doust Curtis, James Ferguson, Antonín Mrkos, Walter Lewin, and Tamara Smirnova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Alfred Fowler ranks 92. Before him are Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe, Dawid Janowski, Giovanni Giacometti, Keisuke Okada, Marie Dressler, and Edgar Lee Masters. After him are Arturo Alessandri, Carl Brockelmann, George Ellery Hale, Oskar Merikanto, Cai Yuanpei, and Mihailo Petrović. Among people deceased in 1940, Alfred Fowler ranks 80. Before him are John A. Hobson, Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz, Albert Kahn, Abdelhamid Ben Badis, Olga Boznańska, and Marcel Granet. After him are Ben Turpin, Robert Hichens, Cai Yuanpei, José Félix Estigarribia, J.-H. Rosny aîné, and Karl Muck.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alfred Fowler ranks 1,920 out of 7,765. Before him are Edith Pargeter (1913), Neil Tennant (1954), Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (1984), John Alcock (1892), Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847), and Willibald (700). After him are Damon Albarn (1968), William Congreve (1670), Cuthbert (635), Arthur Young (1741), Eglantyne Jebb (1876), and Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Alfred Fowler ranks 28. Before him are Margaret Burbidge (1919), John Bevis (1695), Francis Baily (1774), Edward Walter Maunder (1851), James Dunlop (1793), and Edward L. G. Bowell (1943). After him are James Ferguson (1797), John Michell (1724), James Glaisher (1809), Nevil Maskelyne (1732), George Mary Searle (1839), and David Gill (1843).

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