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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 80,948 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Cleveland Abbe is the 428th most popular astronomer (up from 437th in 2019), the 6,963rd most popular biography from United States (up from 7,070th in 2019) and the 87th most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Cleveland Abbe ranks 428 out of 531. Before him are George Herbig, George Henry Peters, Edwin Foster Coddington, Albert George Wilson, Robert Julius Trumpler, and James L. Elliot. After him are Alfred Bohrmann, Ralph Copeland, Schelte J. Bus, Chushiro Hayashi, Pelageya Shajn, and Edward Pigott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Cleveland Abbe ranks 90. Before him are Alexander Veselovsky, Gustav Neumann, Eli Lilly, Duleep Singh, Stefanos Skouloudis, and Octavia Hill. After him are Margaret E. Knight, Marc Delafontaine, Henry Hobson Richardson, Walter Buller, and Joseph F. Smith. Among people deceased in 1916, Cleveland Abbe ranks 121. Before him are Maksim Kovalevsky, Leo Anton Karl de Ball, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Josiah Royce, Jørgen Pedersen Gram, and Georgios Theotokis. After him are Daniel Oliver, Alexander Voeikov, Charles Booth, Guido Romano, Mary Everest Boole, and Lorenzo Latorre.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cleveland Abbe ranks 6,963 out of 18,182. Before him are Ken Foree (1948), John P. Ryan (1936), David Filo (1966), Christine Estabrook (1952), Dwyane Wade (1982), and Clarke Scholes (1930). After him are Irwin Winkler (1931), Kathy Acker (1947), McLean Stevenson (1927), Garrick Ohlsson (1948), David E. Kelley (1956), and Richmond Landon (1898).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Cleveland Abbe ranks 87. Before him are Joel Stebbins (1878), William Wilson Morgan (1906), George Herbig (1920), Edwin Foster Coddington (1870), Albert George Wilson (1918), and James L. Elliot (1943). After him are Schelte J. Bus (1956), James Gunn (1938), George O. Abell (1927), Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898), Harold D. Babcock (1882), and Stephen P. Synnott (1946).

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