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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 41,042 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Charles Dillon Perrine is the 312th most popular astronomer (down from 288th in 2019), the 4,765th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,223rd in 2019) and the 60th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Charles Dillon Perrine ranks 312 out of 531. Before him are Norman Lockyer, Giorgio Abetti, Fang Lizhi, Daniel Kirkwood, Johann von Lamont, and Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger. After him are Richard Christopher Carrington, Edward Sabine, Christine Kirch, Tadeáš Hájek, Gérard de Vaucouleurs, and Adrien Auzout.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Charles Dillon Perrine ranks 95. Before him are Albert Bassermann, Alexander Vasiliev, Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, Alfred Kerr, George Andrew Reisner, and Martin Kutta. After him are Tevfik Fikret, Aleksandar Malinov, Léon Delacroix, Charles Winckler, Andrey Toshev, and Vintilă Brătianu. Among people deceased in 1951, Charles Dillon Perrine ranks 100. Before him are Angelos Sikelianos, Reggie Walker, Sabiha Kasimati, André Gobert, Henry Carton de Wiart, and Roland Jacobi. After him are José Enrique Varela, Karel Teige, Enrique Santos Discépolo, Tilemachos Karakalos, Louis Adamic, and Alphonse de Châteaubriant.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Dillon Perrine ranks 4,765 out of 18,182. Before him are Gene Wolfe (1931), Megan Thee Stallion (1995), Steve Kanaly (1946), Claudette Colvin (1939), Carl Spaatz (1891), and Steven Zaillian (1953). After him are Big Joe Turner (1911), Muse Watson (1948), George Kingsley Zipf (1902), Morris Swadesh (1909), Jerry Hall (1956), and Joe Dallesandro (1948).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Charles Dillon Perrine ranks 60. Before him are Lewis Boss (1846), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), Allan Sandage (1926), Adam Riess (1969), Carl Keenan Seyfert (1911), and Daniel Kirkwood (1814). After him are Alvan Clark (1804), Frank Muller (1862), Eugene Parker (1927), Paul W. Merrill (1887), David Rittenhouse (1732), and Sandra Faber (1944).

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