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David C. Jewitt

1958 - Today

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David Clifford Jewitt (born 1958) is a British-American astronomer who studies the Solar System, especially its minor bodies. He is based at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is a Member of the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, the Director of the Institute for Planets and Exoplanets, Professor of Astronomy in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Professor of Astronomy in the Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David C. Jewitt has received more than 94,869 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. David C. Jewitt is the 498th most popular astronomer (up from 507th in 2019), the 4,232nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,651st in 2019) and the 59th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, David C. Jewitt ranks 498 out of 644. Before him are Ernest Leonard Johnson, William Wilson Morgan, Yuji Hyakutake, Robert Emden, Frank Shu, and Takao Kobayashi. After him are James Challis, Pierre Puiseux, Michel Giacobini, Matvey Gusev, Hisashi Kimura, and Julie Vinter Hansen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, David C. Jewitt ranks 325. Before him are Johan Kriek, Apollinaire J. Kyélem de Tambèla, Tomatito, Hiromi Hara, Norio Sasaki, and Paweł Edelman. After him are Curtis T. McMullen, Dileita Mohamed Dileita, Sergio Omar Almirón, Joseph Strickland, Vladimir Makei, and Hugo de León.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David C. Jewitt ranks 4,232 out of 8,785. Before him are Ramsey Campbell (1946), Brendan Perry (1959), David Jacobs (1888), Joe Elliott (1959), Michael Grant (1914), and William Friese-Greene (1855). After him are Tommy Docherty (1928), Roy Kinnear (1934), Allen Jones (1937), Jimmy Jones (1928), Clive Swift (1936), and John Loder (1898).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, David C. Jewitt ranks 59. Before him are William Frederick Denning (1848), Edward Pigott (1753), Geoffrey Burbidge (1925), Mary Adela Blagg (1858), William Henry Smyth (1788), and Patrick Moore (1923). After him are James Challis (1803), William Christie (1845), John Pond (1767), Robert H. McNaught (1956), Andrew Ainslie Common (1841), and Thomas Brisbane (1773).

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