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Arthur Auwers

1838 - 1915

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Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur von Auwers (12 September 1838 – 24 January 1915) was a German astronomer. Auwers was born in Göttingen to Gottfried Daniel Auwers and Emma Christiane Sophie (née Borkenstein).He attended the University of Göttingen and worked at the University of Königsberg. He specialized in astrometry, making very precise measurements of stellar positions and motions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Auwers has received more than 19,554 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Arthur Auwers is the 132nd most popular astronomer (down from 111th in 2019), the 1,504th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,425th in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Astronomer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 20k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 17.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Arthur Auwers by language

Over the past year Arthur Auwers has had the most page views in the with 2,088 views, followed by English (2,002), and German (1,629). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (134.73%), Egyptian Arabic (79.63%), and Swedish (79.11%)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Arthur Auwers ranks 132 out of 644. Before him are Alphonse Borrelly, Tom Gehrels, Annibale de Gasparis, Maslama al-Majriti, E. M. Antoniadi, and John Goodricke. After him are Auguste Charlois, James Dunlop, Hermann Carl Vogel, Nikolai Chernykh, Maria Margaretha Kirch, and Dorothea Klumpke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Arthur Auwers ranks 30. Before him are Marià Fortuny, 11th Dalai Lama, Edward W. Morley, Cleveland Abbe, Vladimir Markovnikov, and William Henry Perkin. After him are Fredrik Idestam, Jean-Paul Laurens, Gustav von Schmoller, Ludwig Gumplowicz, Jules Brunet, and Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows. Among people deceased in 1915, Arthur Auwers ranks 23. Before him are Armand Peugeot, Saitō Hajime, James Murray, Sergei Taneyev, Anton von Werner, and Remy de Gourmont. After him are Nadežda Petrović, Konstantin Makovsky, Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria, Edith Cavell, Adèle Hugo, and Karl Goldmark.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Arthur Auwers ranks 1,504 out of 7,253. Before him are Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1572), Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden (1763), Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1530), Axel Honneth (1949), Franciscus Sylvius (1614), and Fritz Thyssen (1873). After him are Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (1650), Peter von Cornelius (1784), Jupp Derwall (1927), Wilhelm Müller (1794), Beno Gutenberg (1889), and Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria (1319).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Arthur Auwers ranks 25. Before him are Wilhelm Tempel (1821), Reinhard Genzel (1952), Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), Karl Ludwig Harding (1765), Heinrich Schwabe (1789), and Hermann Goldschmidt (1802). After him are Hermann Carl Vogel (1841), Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670), Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921), August Kopff (1882), Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (1870), and Tobias Mayer (1723).

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