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Allan Sandage

1926 - 2010

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Allan Rex Sandage (June 18, 1926 – November 13, 2010) was an American astronomer. He was Staff Member Emeritus with the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Allan Sandage has received more than 154,650 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Allan Sandage is the 282nd most popular astronomer (up from 296th in 2019), the 4,109th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,510th in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 150k

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  • 52.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Allan Sandage ranks 282 out of 644. Before him are Kidinnu, Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio, Vladimir Albitsky, John Machin, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, and Halton Arp. After him are Horace Parnell Tuttle, Charles T. Kowal, Carl Charlier, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, John Michell, and Aleksander Wolszczan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Allan Sandage ranks 217. Before him are James Hillman, Alfred Körner, Lev Dyomin, Kees Rijvers, Nikita Simonyan, and Sadegh Khalkhali. After him are Yitzhak Arad, Julio Pérez, Zinaida Portnova, Peter Lax, Friedrich Cerha, and Ricardo María Carles Gordó. Among people deceased in 2010, Allan Sandage ranks 167. Before him are Panajot Pano, Yuri Ilyenko, David Warren, Kevin McCarthy, Bernard Giraudeau, and Bruno S.. After him are Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, Zilda Arns, Alex Higgins, Magda Frank, Bobbejaan Schoepen, and Juan Carlos González.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Allan Sandage ranks 4,109 out of 20,380. Before him are Clark Gregg (1962), Halton Arp (1927), Chita Rivera (1933), Sarah Clarke (1972), Warren Oates (1928), and Chuck Schuldiner (1967). After him are Chico Marx (1887), David D. Friedman (1945), Adam Levine (1979), Bill Irwin (1950), Dee Dee Warwick (1942), and Rob Cohen (1949).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Allan Sandage ranks 51. Before him are Catherine Wolfe Bruce (1816), Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906), Seth Carlo Chandler (1846), William Cranch Bond (1789), Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824), and Halton Arp (1927). After him are Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), Charles T. Kowal (1940), Albert George Wilson (1918), Antonia Maury (1866), Adam Riess (1969), and Lewis Boss (1846).

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