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Antonia Maury

1866 - 1952

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Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury (March 21, 1866 – January 8, 1952) was an American astronomer who was the first to detect and calculate the orbit of a spectroscopic binary. She published an important early catalog of stellar spectra using her own system of stellar classification, which was later adopted by the International Astronomical Union. She also spent many years studying the binary star Beta Lyrae. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antonia Maury has received more than 76,895 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Antonia Maury is the 303rd most popular astronomer (down from 267th in 2019), the 4,363rd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,053rd in 2019) and the 55th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Antonia Maury ranks 303 out of 644. Before her are Alfred Fowler, Michael van Langren, Robert T. A. Innes, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, Edwin Ernest Salpeter, and Carl Gustav Witt. After her are Hermann von Struve, Wilhelm Gliese, Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, Richard Christopher Carrington, Otto August Rosenberger, and Franz Kaiser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Antonia Maury ranks 90. Before her are Tor Aulin, Max Wien, Avetis Aharonian, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, Janis Rozentāls, and Carl Gustav Witt. After her are Erik Ivar Fredholm, James J. Corbett, J. B. M. Hertzog, Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Alexey Troitsky, and J. M. E. McTaggart. Among people deceased in 1952, Antonia Maury ranks 93. Before her are Nikos Beloyannis, Constant Permeke, Arturo Rawson, Mariano Azuela, Harold Innis, and Franz John. After her are Alberto Savinio, Edward S. Curtis, Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Krystyna Skarbek, Max Dehn, and David Bergelson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Antonia Maury ranks 4,363 out of 20,380. Before her are Anthony Heald (1944), Mort Shuman (1938), Lobo (1943), Bud Cort (1948), Robert Wisdom (1953), and Signe Toly Anderson (1941). After her are James Michael Harvey (1949), Russ Tamblyn (1934), Maceo Parker (1943), James M. Gavin (1907), Lucretia Mott (1793), and Katherine Kelly Lang (1961).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Antonia Maury ranks 55. Before her are Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824), Halton Arp (1927), Allan Sandage (1926), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), Charles T. Kowal (1940), and Albert George Wilson (1918). After her are Adam Riess (1969), Lewis Boss (1846), Alvan Clark (1804), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), Daniel Kirkwood (1814), and Charles Dillon Perrine (1867).

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