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Beatrice Tinsley

1941 - 1981

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Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley (27 January 1941 – 23 March 1981) was a British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist, and the first female professor of astronomy at Yale University, whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical understanding of how galaxies evolve, grow and die. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Beatrice Tinsley has received more than 330,020 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Beatrice Tinsley is the 358th most popular astronomer (up from 444th in 2019), the 2,895th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,793rd in 2019) and the 43rd most popular British Astronomer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.48

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Beatrice Tinsley ranks 358 out of 644. Before her are Bart Bok, Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Viktor Knorre, Heikki A. Alikoski, Christopher Hansteen, and Georg Marcgrave. After her are Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Giorgio Abetti, Heber Doust Curtis, Jean Richer, and Carl Keenan Seyfert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Beatrice Tinsley ranks 330. Before her are Erkin Koray, Gabriel Zubeir Wako, Nicolae Neagoe, Julia McKenzie, Jessica Walter, and Ulf Merbold. After her are Martine Beswick, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Kornel Morawiecki, Ana Maria Machado, Christopher Hogwood, and Alla Kushnir. Among people deceased in 1981, Beatrice Tinsley ranks 139. Before her are Rosa Ponselle, Werner Teske, Shovkat Mammadova, Rudolf Krčil, Lydia Lopokova, and Evsei Liberman. After her are William Gopallawa, Karl Struss, Antonio Berni, Durgabai Deshmukh, Rino Gaetano, and Gerhard Marcks.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Beatrice Tinsley ranks 2,895 out of 8,785. Before her are Matthew Macfadyen (1974), Julia McKenzie (1941), Peter Walker (1912), Ronald Fairbairn (1889), Josephine Butler (1828), and Nicholas Hilliard (1547). After her are Edward Arthur Milne (1896), Maurice Evans (1901), James Purefoy (1964), Norman Read (1931), Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1901), and Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Beatrice Tinsley ranks 43. Before her are John Machin (1680), John Michell (1724), Alfred Fowler (1868), Robert T. A. Innes (1861), Richard Christopher Carrington (1826), and Herbert Hall Turner (1861). After her are Ralph Copeland (1837), Frank Watson Dyson (1868), Johann von Lamont (1805), Nathaniel Bliss (1700), Harry Edwin Wood (1881), and Harold Spencer Jones (1890).

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