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Edwin Foster Coddington

1870 - 1950

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Edwin Foster Coddington (June 24, 1870 – December 21, 1950) was an American astronomer and discoverer of astronomical objects. He co-discovered the comet C/1898 L1 (Coddington-Pauly), also known by the older designation Comet 1898 VII. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin Foster Coddington has received more than 15,261 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin Foster Coddington is the 512th most popular astronomer (down from 424th in 2019), the 8,805th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,860th in 2019) and the 98th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Edwin Foster Coddington ranks 512 out of 644. Before him are Bohdan Paczyński, Jane Luu, Ernest Esclangon, DeLisle Stewart, Kaoru Ikeya, and Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs. After him are Wilhelm Anderson, John Dobson, John Broughton, Hans-Emil Schuster, Agnes Mary Clerke, and Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Edwin Foster Coddington ranks 151. Before him are Hisashi Kimura, Lloyd Hildebrand, Karel Kašpar, Maxfield Parrish, DeLisle Stewart, and Julius Körner. After him are Jacques Cariou, James M. Cox, Frederick G. Donnan, Major Ritchie, Lilian Gibbs, and Walter Chaffe. Among people deceased in 1950, Edwin Foster Coddington ranks 171. Before him are Tommaso Costantino, Elisabeth Langgässer, Alexandros Diomidis, Karel Koželuh, Henryk Grossman, and Maurice Schilles. After him are Jaroslav Kvapil, Marguerite De La Motte, Peter Kemp, Enrico Mizzi, Hubert Stevens, and Horace Rice.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin Foster Coddington ranks 8,805 out of 20,380. Before him are Daniel von Bargen (1950), James E. Gunn (1923), Elizabeth Reaser (1975), Margaret Truman (1924), Florence Price (1887), and Jack McDevitt (1935). After him are Austin Butler (1991), Garrett Morris (1937), Edith Abbott (1876), Frederick Moloney (1882), David Buss (1953), and Seymour Benzer (1921).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Edwin Foster Coddington ranks 98. Before him are Royal Harwood Frost (1879), Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898), Forest Ray Moulton (1872), Carl A. Wirtanen (1910), William Wilson Morgan (1906), and DeLisle Stewart (1870). After him are John N. Bahcall (1934), Roy A. Tucker (1951), Edward S. Holden (1846), Marc Aaronson (1950), Grove Karl Gilbert (1843), and Charles Augustus Young (1834).

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