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Carl Keenan Seyfert

1911 - 1960

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Carl Keenan Seyfert (February 11, 1911 – June 13, 1960) was an American astronomer. He is best known for his 1943 research paper on high-excitation line emission from the centers of some spiral galaxies, which are named Seyfert galaxies after him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Keenan Seyfert has received more than 29,950 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Carl Keenan Seyfert is the 302nd most popular astronomer (down from 270th in 2019), the 4,578th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,029th in 2019) and the 58th most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.40

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  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Carl Keenan Seyfert ranks 302 out of 531. Before him are Allan Sandage, Louis Boyer, Franz Kaiser, Christopher Hansteen, Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, and Adam Riess. After him are Marguerite Laugier, Nathaniel Bliss, Richard Martin West, Norman Lockyer, Giorgio Abetti, and Fang Lizhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Carl Keenan Seyfert ranks 164. Before him are Tarō Okamoto, Terry-Thomas, Gian Carlo Menotti, Arkady Raikin, Kukrit Pramoj, and Harry Andrews. After him are Mary Blair, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Millosh Gjergj Nikolla, Louis Dumont, Rafael Arnaiz Barón, and Broderick Crawford. Among people deceased in 1960, Carl Keenan Seyfert ranks 116. Before him are Adone Zoli, Massimo Bontempelli, Eduard Pütsep, Oscar Hammerstein II, Móric Esterházy, and Toyohiko Kagawa. After him are Igor Grabar, Zora Neale Hurston, Harry Schell, Ken McArthur, Semyon Bogdanov, and Dirk Jan de Geer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carl Keenan Seyfert ranks 4,578 out of 18,182. Before him are Dorothy McGuire (1916), Shonda Rhimes (1970), Brandon Sanderson (1975), Varian Fry (1907), Harry Reid (1939), and Lena Horne (1917). After him are James Russo (1953), Frank Gorshin (1933), Rick James (1948), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (1984), Teri Garr (1944), and Melanie Thornton (1967).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Carl Keenan Seyfert ranks 58. Before him are Antonia Maury (1866), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), Lewis Boss (1846), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), Allan Sandage (1926), and Adam Riess (1969). After him are Daniel Kirkwood (1814), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), Alvan Clark (1804), Frank Muller (1862), Eugene Parker (1927), and Paul W. Merrill (1887).

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