1906 - 1997
Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer. He discovered Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt. At the time of discovery, Pluto was considered a planet, but was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clyde Tombaugh has received more than 1,063,366 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia. Clyde Tombaugh is the 48th most popular astronomer (down from 40th in 2019), the 785th most popular biography from United States (down from 606th in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Astronomer.
Clyde Tombaugh is most famous for discovering Pluto in 1930.
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Among astronomers, Clyde Tombaugh ranks 48 out of 531. Before him are Simon Marius, Arthur Eddington, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, James Bradley, Asaph Hall, and Fritz Zwicky. After him are Ferdinand Verbiest, Johann Palisa, Jérôme Lalande, Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, Pieter van Musschenbroek, and Varāhamihira.
1573 - 1625
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 42
1882 - 1944
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 43
1868 - 1921
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 44
1693 - 1762
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 45
1829 - 1907
HPI: 64.25
Rank: 46
1898 - 1974
HPI: 63.78
Rank: 47
1906 - 1997
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 48
1623 - 1688
HPI: 63.74
Rank: 49
1848 - 1925
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 50
1732 - 1807
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 51
1713 - 1762
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 52
1692 - 1761
HPI: 63.25
Rank: 53
505 - 587
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 54
Among people born in 1906, Clyde Tombaugh ranks 48. Before him are Philip Johnson, Robert E. Howard, Vladimir Prelog, Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Oleg Antonov, and Marie José of Belgium. After him are Bugsy Siegel, Klaus Mann, Estée Lauder, Marcel Carné, Ernst Chain, and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga. Among people deceased in 1997, Clyde Tombaugh ranks 33. Before him are Aldo Rossi, Dora Maar, Burgess Meredith, Chaim Herzog, Willem de Kooning, and Edward Mills Purcell. After him are Otto Ernst Remer, Helenio Herrera, Zoltán Czibor, Shoichi Yokoi, Dodi Fayed, and John Eccles.
1906 - 2005
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 42
1906 - 1936
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 43
1906 - 1998
HPI: 64.13
Rank: 44
1906 - 1989
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 45
1906 - 1984
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 46
1906 - 2001
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 47
1906 - 1997
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 48
1906 - 1947
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 49
1906 - 1949
HPI: 63.49
Rank: 50
1906 - 2004
HPI: 63.47
Rank: 51
1906 - 1996
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 52
1906 - 1979
HPI: 62.77
Rank: 53
1906 - 1979
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 54
1931 - 1997
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 27
1907 - 1997
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 28
1907 - 1997
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 29
1918 - 1997
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 30
1904 - 1997
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 31
1912 - 1997
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 32
1906 - 1997
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 33
1912 - 1997
HPI: 63.60
Rank: 34
1910 - 1997
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 35
1929 - 1997
HPI: 62.90
Rank: 36
1915 - 1997
HPI: 62.69
Rank: 37
1955 - 1997
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 38
1903 - 1997
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 39
Among people born in United States, Clyde Tombaugh ranks 785 out of 18,182. Before him are Martin Seligman (1942), Jada Pinkett Smith (1971), Dashiell Hammett (1894), Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), Linda B. Buck (1947), and Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916). After him are Adam Sandler (1966), George Beadle (1903), John Dos Passos (1896), Anne Sullivan (1866), Arthur Ashkin (1922), and Laurence Fishburne (1961).
1942 - Present
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 779
1971 - Present
HPI: 63.79
Rank: 780
1894 - 1961
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 781
1904 - 1971
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 782
1947 - Present
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 783
1916 - 2003
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 784
1906 - 1997
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 785
1966 - Present
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 786
1903 - 1989
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 787
1896 - 1970
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 788
1866 - 1936
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 789
1922 - 2020
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 790
1961 - Present
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 791
Among astronomers born in United States, Clyde Tombaugh ranks 9. Before him are Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958), Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936), William Alfred Fowler (1911), Charles Greeley Abbot (1872), Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868), and Asaph Hall (1829). After him are Vera Rubin (1928), Percival Lowell (1855), Russell Alan Hulse (1950), Lewis A. Swift (1820), Edward Emerson Barnard (1857), and Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928).
1958 - Present
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 3
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 4
1911 - 1995
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 5
1872 - 1973
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 6
1868 - 1921
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 7
1829 - 1907
HPI: 64.25
Rank: 8
1906 - 1997
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 9
1928 - 2016
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 10
1855 - 1916
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 11
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 12
1820 - 1913
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 13
1857 - 1923
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 14
1928 - 1997
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 15