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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 47,800 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Alvan Clark is the 326th most popular astronomer (up from 336th in 2019), the 4,959th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,130th in 2019) and the 61st most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 49.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Alvan Clark ranks 326 out of 531. Before him are Michael van Langren, Geminiano Montanari, Johann III Bernoulli, Luigi Carnera, Carl Gustav Witt, and James Craig Watson. After him are Wilhelm Julius Foerster, Frank Muller, Philippe van Lansberge, Jing Fang, Cyril Jackson, and Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Alvan Clark ranks 50. Before him are Pierre François Verhulst, Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel, Osceola, Jules Dupuit, Victor Schœlcher, and Jules Janin. After him are Princess Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Louis-François-Clement Breguet, Franz Meyen, Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, Richard Cobden, and Salomon Müller. Among people deceased in 1887, Alvan Clark ranks 37. Before him are Lysander Spooner, Otto Lesser, August von Werder, Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, Mohamed Sherif Pasha, and Friedrich Theodor Vischer. After him are Peter Jan Beckx, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Julius von Haast, Mikhail Katkov, Fran Levstik, and E. Marlitt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alvan Clark ranks 4,959 out of 18,182. Before him are Ruth St. Denis (1879), Ona Zee (1951), Jim Hutton (1934), Sandra Day O'Connor (1930), Art Carney (1918), and Kyle Chandler (1965). After him are Dick Powell (1904), Charli D'Amelio (2004), Henry Adams (1838), Jimmy Fallon (1974), Kathryn Morris (1969), and Dr. John (1941).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Alvan Clark ranks 61. Before him are Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), Allan Sandage (1926), Adam Riess (1969), Carl Keenan Seyfert (1911), Daniel Kirkwood (1814), and Charles Dillon Perrine (1867). After him are Frank Muller (1862), Eugene Parker (1927), Paul W. Merrill (1887), David Rittenhouse (1732), Sandra Faber (1944), and Catherine Wolfe Bruce (1816).

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