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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 72,361 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Antonia Maury is the 267th most popular astronomer (down from 244th in 2019), the 4,064th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,645th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Antonia Maury ranks 267 out of 531. Before her are Pierre Charles Le Monnier, Sylvain Arend, David Gill, Franz Xaver von Zach, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, and Charles T. Kowal. After her are Horace Parnell Tuttle, Laurent Cassegrain, Jean Richer, Carl Charlier, Lewis Boss, and Charles Wolf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Antonia Maury ranks 72. Before her are António José de Almeida, Jeppe Aakjær, Elizabeth von Arnim, J. M. E. McTaggart, Julian Marchlewski, and Robert Broom. After her are Erik Ivar Fredholm, Roger Fry, Tristan Bernard, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, Janis Rozentāls, and Pyotr Lebedev. Among people deceased in 1952, Antonia Maury ranks 82. Before her are Matrona Nikonova, Carlo Sforza, Juan Yagüe, Max Dehn, Maurice De Waele, and Franz John. After her are Harold Innis, Edward S. Curtis, Krystyna Skarbek, Mauno Pekkala, Alberto Savinio, and Adolf Busch.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Antonia Maury ranks 4,064 out of 18,182. Before her are Elliott Carter (1908), Hope Lange (1933), Toni Braxton (1967), Walter Cunningham (1932), Howard Stern (1954), and Tim Russ (1956). After her are Irene Cara (1959), Lisa Niemi (1956), Holly Marie Combs (1973), Freddie Hubbard (1938), Paul Rand (1914), and Frank Welker (1946).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Antonia Maury ranks 52. Before her are Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906), William Cranch Bond (1789), Seth Carlo Chandler (1846), Alvan Graham Clark (1832), Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824), and Charles T. Kowal (1940). After her are Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), Lewis Boss (1846), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), Allan Sandage (1926), Adam Riess (1969), and Carl Keenan Seyfert (1911).

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