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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 87,887 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). David C. Jewitt is the 507th most popular astronomer (down from 481st in 2019), the 4,661st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,320th in 2019) and the 65th most popular British Astronomer.

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  • 33

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  • 3.42

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, David C. Jewitt ranks 507 out of 531Before him are Robert H. McNaught, Hiroki Kosai, Seiji Ueda, Kiichirō Furukawa, Luciano Tesi, and Adriaan van Maanen. After him are Okuro Oikawa, Pavel Shternberg, Hiroshi Kaneda, Thomas Brisbane, Takao Kobayashi, and Yoshisada Shimizu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, David C. Jewitt ranks 361Before him are Stephan Weil, Sean Michaels, Luc Luycx, Robert Kagan, Mychael Danna, and Luiz Carlos Ferreira. After him are Lav Diaz, Michael Landau, Predrag Pašić, Dileita Mohamed Dileita, Bart Conner, and John Metgod.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David C. Jewitt ranks 4,661 out of 7,765Before him are Rupert Holmes (1947), Adam Lallana (1988), Michael Hordern (1911), Henry Taylor (1932), Stuart Baird (1947), and Neil Kinnock (1942). After him are Lindsay Hoyle (1957), Basil Hume (1923), Richard Brake (1964), Fred Davis (1913), Sean Pertwee (1964), and Trent Alexander-Arnold (1998).

Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, David C. Jewitt ranks 65Before him are William Robert Brooks (1844), William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843), Richard A. Proctor (1837), James Challis (1803), Mary Adela Blagg (1858), and Robert H. McNaught (1956). After him are Thomas Brisbane (1773), James Ferguson (1710), and Arnold Wolfendale (1927).