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Edward S. Holden

1846 - 1914

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Edward Singleton Holden (November 5, 1846 – March 16, 1914) was an American astronomer and the fifth president of the University of California. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward S. Holden has received more than 32,731 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Edward S. Holden is the 528th most popular astronomer (down from 468th in 2019), the 9,419th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,777th in 2019) and the 101st most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Edward S. Holden ranks 528 out of 644. Before him are Erika Böhm-Vitense, Korado Korlević, Okuro Oikawa, Roy A. Tucker, Ľudmila Pajdušáková, and William Christie. After him are Marc Aaronson, John Pond, Yoshisada Shimizu, Robert H. McNaught, Grove Karl Gilbert, and Carlos Ulrrico Cesco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Edward S. Holden ranks 111. Before him are Marco Aurelio Soto, Benigno Ferreira, Nikolay Umov, Federico Chueca, Randolph Caldecott, and Maksymilian Gierymski. After him are Raimundo Andueza Palacio, Ira Remsen, Joseph B. Foraker, and Michael Davitt. Among people deceased in 1914, Edward S. Holden ranks 133. Before him are Margaret E. Knight, Louis Bach, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Ida Freund, Morton Betts, and Johannes Weiss. After him are George Hutson, Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, and Mariano Trías.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward S. Holden ranks 9,419 out of 20,380. Before him are James Young (1872), Dallas Long (1940), Doug Yule (1947), Jim Hall (1935), Danny Carey (1961), and Charles Sumner (1811). After him are Buddy Miles (1947), Joe Fulks (1921), Elsie Janis (1889), Daniel Barringer (1860), George Beauchamp (1899), and Brandon Routh (1979).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Edward S. Holden ranks 101. Before him are Carl A. Wirtanen (1910), William Wilson Morgan (1906), DeLisle Stewart (1870), Edwin Foster Coddington (1870), John N. Bahcall (1934), and Roy A. Tucker (1951). After him are Marc Aaronson (1950), Grove Karl Gilbert (1843), Charles Augustus Young (1834), Lawrence H. Aller (1913), Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905), and Anne Sewell Young (1871).

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