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Benjamin Apthorp Gould

1824 - 1896

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Benjamin Apthorp Gould (September 27, 1824 – November 26, 1896) was a pioneering American astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Apthorp Gould has received more than 52,160 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Benjamin Apthorp Gould is the 280th most popular astronomer (down from 265th in 2019), the 4,096th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,997th in 2019) and the 49th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Benjamin Apthorp Gould ranks 280 out of 644. Before him are Luigi Carnera, Paul Wild, Kidinnu, Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio, Vladimir Albitsky, and John Machin. After him are Halton Arp, Allan Sandage, Horace Parnell Tuttle, Charles T. Kowal, Carl Charlier, and Henri-Alexandre Deslandres.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Benjamin Apthorp Gould ranks 52. Before him are Branko Radičević, George Speck, Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Emmanuel Frémiet, Antonio Ghislanzoni, and Ambrose Burnside. After him are Juliusz Kossak, Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz, Wilhelm Hofmeister, Víctor Balaguer i Cirera, Winfield Scott Hancock, and Ōmura Masujirō. Among people deceased in 1896, Benjamin Apthorp Gould ranks 51. Before him are Jules Simon, Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Napoleon Sarony, William Robert Grove, Charles Floquet, and Charilaos Trikoupis. After him are Ferdinand von Mueller, Maria Wodzińska, Carl Humann, Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, Vera Yevstafievna Popova, and Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Benjamin Apthorp Gould ranks 4,096 out of 20,380. Before him are Fred MacMurray (1908), John Cromwell (1886), William J. Seymour (1870), David Huddleston (1930), Maurice Hilleman (1919), and Ginger Lynn (1962). After him are Gus Hall (1910), Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856), Hubert Selby Jr. (1928), Lynne Cheney (1941), Lester Germer (1896), and David Zucker (1947).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Benjamin Apthorp Gould ranks 49. Before him are Sandra Faber (1944), George Ellery Hale (1868), Catherine Wolfe Bruce (1816), Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906), Seth Carlo Chandler (1846), and William Cranch Bond (1789). After him are Halton Arp (1927), Allan Sandage (1926), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), Charles T. Kowal (1940), Albert George Wilson (1918), and Antonia Maury (1866).

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