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Alvan Clark

1804 - 1887

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Alvan Clark (March 8, 1804 – August 19, 1887), born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, was an American astronomer and telescope maker. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alvan Clark has received more than 51,240 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Alvan Clark is the 330th most popular astronomer (down from 326th in 2019), the 4,729th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,947th in 2019) and the 58th most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 57.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Alvan Clark ranks 330 out of 644. Before him are Fang Lizhi, David H. Levy, Félix Tisserand, Christine Kirch, Joseph Helffrich, and Jing Fang. After him are Andronicus of Cyrrhus, Geminiano Montanari, Raymond Smith Dugan, Elia Millosevich, Wilhelm Julius Foerster, and Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Alvan Clark ranks 52. Before him are Robert Hermann Schomburgk, Mariana Pineda, Jules Dupuit, Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen, Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg, and Richard Cobden. After him are Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel, Jules Janin, Franz Meyen, Gheorghe Bibescu, Salomon Müller, and Mykhailo Maksymovych. Among people deceased in 1887, Alvan Clark ranks 40. Before him are August von Werder, Moritz Wagner, Peter Jan Beckx, Mohamed Sherif Pasha, Emma Lazarus, and Lorenzo Batlle y Grau. After him are Friedrich Theodor Vischer, August Friedrich Pott, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Mikhail Katkov, Peder Balke, and Fran Levstik.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alvan Clark ranks 4,729 out of 20,380. Before him are David Geffen (1943), Bill Goldberg (1966), John Singleton Copley (1738), IShowSpeed (2005), Willie Garson (1964), and Peter Revson (1939). After him are Paula Patton (1975), Frederic Clements (1874), John Spencer (1946), Corey Taylor (1973), Howard Stern (1954), and George Seaton (1911).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Alvan Clark ranks 58. Before him are Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), Charles T. Kowal (1940), Albert George Wilson (1918), Antonia Maury (1866), Adam Riess (1969), and Lewis Boss (1846). After him are Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), Daniel Kirkwood (1814), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), James W. Christy (1938), Frank Muller (1862), and Eugene Parker (1927).

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