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Charles W. Juels

1944 - 2009

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Charles W. Juels (1944 – January 21, 2009) was an American amateur astronomer and psychiatrist by profession, who became a prolific discoverer of minor planets after his retirement.Juels was born in New York City in 1944, and grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1969 he graduated from Cincinnati College of Medicine. After his retirement as a psychiatrist in Phoenix, Arizona, he began hunting for minor planets at his private Fountain Hills Observatory, in Fountain Hills, Arizona. He quickly became noted when he was credited with the discovery of 65 numbered minor planets during the first 18 months of his short career as a discoverer of minor planets.In total, Juels is credited by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) with the discovery of 475 minor planets made between 1999 and 2003, and ranks as one of the world's top discoverers on the MPC charts.In December 2002, Juels and Paulo R. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles W. Juels has received more than 17,080 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Charles W. Juels is the 452nd most popular astronomer (up from 520th in 2019), the 6,929th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,471st in 2019) and the 85th most popular American Astronomer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Charles W. Juels has had the most page views in the with 1,790 views, followed by Polish (476), and Russian (450). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Armenian (61.69%), Egyptian Arabic (59.38%), and Catalan (54.17%)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Charles W. Juels ranks 452 out of 644. Before him are Willem Jacob Luyten, Kees de Jager, Edward Pigott, Horace W. Babcock, Fyodor Bredikhin, and Benjamin Banneker. After him are Frank Schlesinger, Alexandre Schaumasse, Carolyn Porco, Alfred Schmitt, Michael E. Brown, and David Todd Wilkinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Charles W. Juels ranks 484. Before him are John Onaiyekan, José Manuel García-Margallo, Richard Gant, Fausta Morganti, Nelson Prudêncio, and Monty Alexander. After him are Oswald Gracias, Roger Dean, Seán Patrick O'Malley, José Luis Garci, István Géczi, and Paul Keating. Among people deceased in 2009, Charles W. Juels ranks 255. Before him are Irving Kristol, Abel Goumba, Mamadou Dia, Kim Manners, Ron Asheton, and Shota Chochishvili. After him are Héctor Facundo, Harve Presnell, Mary Travers, Roger Planchon, Jan Kaplický, and Sergei Magnitsky.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles W. Juels ranks 6,929 out of 20,380. Before him are Bud Houser (1901), Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892), John L. Hennessy (1952), Mary Lou Williams (1910), Steve Miller (1943), and Benjamin Banneker (1731). After him are George Moscone (1929), Harriet Bland (1915), John Forsyth (1780), Frank Belknap Long (1901), William Pinkney (1764), and Neil Campbell (1946).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Charles W. Juels ranks 85. Before him are George Herbig (1920), Jill Tarter (1944), Brian Schmidt (1967), Henry L. Giclas (1910), Horace W. Babcock (1912), and Benjamin Banneker (1731). After him are Frank Schlesinger (1871), Carolyn Porco (1953), Michael E. Brown (1965), David Todd Wilkinson (1935), Stephen P. Synnott (1946), and Schelte J. Bus (1956).

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