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Charles Piazzi Smyth

1819 - 1900

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Charles Piazzi Smyth (3 January 1819 – 21 February 1900) was a British astronomer who was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888; he is known for many innovations in astronomy and, along with his wife Jessica Duncan Piazzi Smyth, his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Piazzi Smyth has received more than 96,088 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Charles Piazzi Smyth is the 464th most popular astronomer (down from 441st in 2019), the 3,717th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,439th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Italian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Charles Piazzi Smyth ranks 464 out of 644. Before him are David Todd Wilkinson, Geoffrey Burbidge, Guillermo Haro, Tsutomu Seki, Vincenzo Cerulli, and Luciano Tesi. After him are Stephen P. Synnott, Mary Adela Blagg, Alexander Voeikov, Schelte J. Bus, Hiroshi Kaneda, and Holger Thiele.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Charles Piazzi Smyth ranks 84. Before him are Ernst Falkbeer, Émile Blanchard, Louise Otto-Peters, Klaus Groth, Joseph-Alfred Serret, and James Spriggs Payne. After him are José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco, Julia Ward Howe, William Powell Frith, Ion Emanuel Florescu, Joaquín Jovellar y Soler, and William Muir. Among people deceased in 1900, Charles Piazzi Smyth ranks 86. Before him are Albert Bernhard Frank, Hannibal Goodwin, John Anderson, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Victoire Léodile Béra, and William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong. After him are Nicolae Crețulescu, József Szlávy, Ernest Dowson, William Stanley Haseltine, Tomás Gomensoro Albín, and Raimundo Andueza Palacio.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Charles Piazzi Smyth ranks 3,717 out of 5,161. Before him are Alberto Bigon (1947), Giorgio La Pira (1904), Giuseppe Petrocchi (1948), Oreste Puliti (1891), Luciano Tesi (1931), and Camillo Caccia Dominioni (1877). After him are Mario Zanin (1940), Rino Ferrario (1926), Den Harrow (1962), Domenico Vandelli (1735), Gabriele Tarquini (1962), and Milly D'Abbraccio (1964).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Italy

Among astronomers born in Italy, Charles Piazzi Smyth ranks 27. Before him are Ercole Dembowski (1812), Geminiano Montanari (1633), Elia Millosevich (1848), Giorgio Abetti (1882), Giuseppe Asclepi (1706), and Luciano Tesi (1931). After him are Barnaba Oriani (1752), Maura Tombelli (1952), Stefano Sposetti (1958), and Andrea Boattini (1969).

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