ASTRONAUT

Claude Nicollier

1944 - Today

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Claude Nicollier (born 2 September 1944) is the first astronaut from Switzerland. He has flown on four Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight (STS-46) was in 1992, and his final spaceflight (STS-103) was in 1999. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Nicollier has received more than 140,424 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Claude Nicollier is the 68th most popular astronaut (up from 81st in 2019), the 244th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 264th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Astronaut.

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  • 140k

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  • 61.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Claude Nicollier ranks 68 out of 556. Before him are Richard F. Gordon Jr., Christa McAuliffe, Vyacheslav Zudov, Aleksei Gubarev, Karol J. Bobko, and Gordon Cooper. After him are Viktor Gorbatko, Thomas P. Stafford, Michael J. Smith, Mary L. Cleave, Phạm Tuân, and Yuri Artyukhin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Claude Nicollier ranks 231. Before him are Gary Glitter, Elizabeth Loftus, Élisabeth Badinter, Robert Hanssen, Jeffrey Tambor, and Ulf Stark. After him are Mauro Piacenza, Džemaludin Mušović, Phillip Allen Sharp, Abdul Fatah Younis, Tim Rice, and Gabor Maté.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Claude Nicollier ranks 244 out of 1,015. Before him are Louis of Cyprus (1436), Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884), Ignazio Cassis (1961), Jean Ziegler (1934), Albert Scherrer (1908), and Anton Graff (1736). After him are Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698), Vincent Perez (1964), Jeremias Gotthelf (1797), Rudolf Wolf (1816), Matilda of Habsburg (1253), and Johann Peter Hebel (1760).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Switzerland

Among astronauts born in Switzerland, Claude Nicollier ranks 1. 

Swiss born Astronauts

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