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Charles Dillon Perrine

1867 - 1951

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Charles Dillon Perrine (July 28, 1867 – June 21, 1951) was an American astronomer at the Lick Observatory in California (1893-1909) who moved to Cordoba, Argentina to accept the position of Director of the Argentine National Observatory (1909-1936). The Cordoba Observatory under Perrine's direction made the first attempts to prove Einstein's theory of relativity by astronomical observation of the deflection of starlight near the Sun during the solar eclipse of October 10, 1912 in Cristina (Brazil), and the solar eclipse of August 21, 1914 at Feodosia, Crimea, Russian Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Dillon Perrine has received more than 43,936 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Dillon Perrine is the 344th most popular astronomer (down from 312th in 2019), the 4,918th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,753rd in 2019) and the 61st most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Charles Dillon Perrine ranks 344 out of 644. Before him are Benjamin Markarian, Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Daniel Kirkwood, Adriaan van Maanen, Edward Sabine, and Hugo von Seeliger. After him are James W. Christy, Frank Muller, Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, Takeshi Urata, Eugene Parker, and Herbert Friedman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Charles Dillon Perrine ranks 105. Before him are Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria, Vera Yevstafievna Popova, Andrey Toshev, Flora Finch, Tevfik Fikret, and Albert Bassermann. After him are Ivan Grohar, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Chris Watson, Max Dessoir, Léon Delacroix, and Carmen de Burgos. Among people deceased in 1951, Charles Dillon Perrine ranks 107. Before him are Gustave Sandras, Angelos Sikelianos, Louis Adamic, Katarzyna Kobro, Fréhel, and Roland Jacobi. After him are Tilemachos Karakalos, J. C. Leyendecker, Sabiha Kasimati, Ernesto Ambrosini, Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth, and Haj Ali Razmara.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Dillon Perrine ranks 4,918 out of 20,380. Before him are Catharine MacKinnon (1946), William Joseph Simmons (1880), Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1962), Walter Isaacson (1952), Joshua Logan (1908), and Daniel Morgan (1736). After him are Ryan Phillippe (1974), Julie Benz (1972), Anthony Zerbe (1936), Joe Montana (1956), Dorothy Lamour (1914), and Saul Zaentz (1921).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Charles Dillon Perrine ranks 61. Before him are Antonia Maury (1866), Adam Riess (1969), Lewis Boss (1846), Alvan Clark (1804), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), and Daniel Kirkwood (1814). After him are James W. Christy (1938), Frank Muller (1862), Eugene Parker (1927), Herbert Friedman (1916), Heber Doust Curtis (1872), and Carl Keenan Seyfert (1911).

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