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Cleveland Abbe

1838 - 1916

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Cleveland Abbe (December 3, 1838 – October 28, 1916) was an American meteorologist and advocate of time zones. While director of the Cincinnati Observatory in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1871-1916, he developed a system of telegraphic weather reports, daily weather maps, and weather forecasts. In 1870, Congress established the U.S. Weather Bureau and inaugurated the use of daily weather forecasts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cleveland Abbe has received more than 85,601 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Cleveland Abbe is the 121st most popular astronomer (up from 428th in 2019), the 1,640th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,949th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Cleveland Abbe ranks 121 out of 644. Before him are John Louis Emil Dreyer, Walter Sydney Adams, Heinrich Schwabe, Frank Drake, Ernst Öpik, and William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse. After him are Eric Walter Elst, Ali Qushji, Hermann Goldschmidt, Maria Mitchell, Alphonse Borrelly, and Tom Gehrels.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Cleveland Abbe ranks 27. Before him are Ōkuma Shigenobu, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Konstanty Kalinowski, Marià Fortuny, 11th Dalai Lama, and Edward W. Morley. After him are Vladimir Markovnikov, William Henry Perkin, Arthur Auwers, Fredrik Idestam, Jean-Paul Laurens, and Gustav von Schmoller. Among people deceased in 1916, Cleveland Abbe ranks 44. Before him are Victoriano Huerta, Hiram Maxim, Hugo Münsterberg, Pierre Duhem, Julius Fučík, and Vasily Surikov. After him are Théodule-Armand Ribot, Joseph Gallieni, Ōyama Iwao, Fredrik Idestam, Hans Richter, and Antonio Sant'Elia.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cleveland Abbe ranks 1,640 out of 20,380. Before him are Ethel Barrymore (1879), Mary Anderson (1862), Caroline Kennedy (1957), Jackie Coogan (1914), Kyle MacLachlan (1959), and Eddie Cochran (1938). After him are Samuel C. C. Ting (1936), Elisha Gray (1835), Art Tatum (1909), Wes Studi (1947), Larry Holmes (1949), and Annie Leibovitz (1949).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Cleveland Abbe ranks 22. Before him are Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1941), Annie Jump Cannon (1863), James Van Allen (1914), Henry Norris Russell (1877), Edward Charles Pickering (1846), and Frank Drake (1930). After him are Maria Mitchell (1818), Dorothea Klumpke (1861), Henry Draper (1837), Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929), Andrea M. Ghez (1965), and George Phillips Bond (1825).

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