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Frank Elmore Ross

1874 - 1960

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Frank Elmore Ross (April 2, 1874 – September 21, 1960) was an American astronomer and physicist. He was born in San Francisco, California and died in Altadena, California. In 1901 he received his doctorate from the University of California. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Elmore Ross has received more than 19,040 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Frank Elmore Ross is the 376th most popular astronomer (down from 327th in 2019), the 5,921st most popular biography from United States (down from 5,026th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Frank Elmore Ross ranks 376 out of 531Before him are Forest Ray Moulton, Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Frank Schlesinger, Caterina Scarpellini, Herbert Friedman, and Harry Edwin Wood. After him are Harold Spencer Jones, Benjamin Markarian, Dorothea Klumpke, Catherine Cesarsky, Christian August Friedrich Peters, and Henry E. Holt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Frank Elmore Ross ranks 147Before him are Abraham Brill, Charles William Miller, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Steve Bloomer, Dmitry Gulia, and Abbas Sahhat. After him are Henry Travers, Honus Wagner, J. C. Leyendecker, Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Theodore Lyman IV, and Leonard Eugene Dickson. Among people deceased in 1960, Frank Elmore Ross ranks 137Before him are Lya Mara, Oswald Veblen, Harry Ferguson, Eduard Čech, Teodoro Picado Michalski, and Dmitry Gulia. After him are Harold Spencer Jones, Gregorio Marañón, Antal Szalay, Pedro Arispe, Arthur Benjamin, and Willem Elsschot.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Elmore Ross ranks 5,921 out of 18,182Before him are Jeff Conaway (1950), Frankie Avalon (1940), Joey Bishop (1918), Lil Peep (1996), R. G. Armstrong (1917), and Carol Morris (1936). After him are Miriam Stevenson (1933), Jon Brion (1963), Robert Anderson (1805), Robert Barro (1944), J. D. Tippit (1924), and John Norman (1931).

Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Frank Elmore Ross ranks 72Before him are Sandra Faber (1944), Catherine Wolfe Bruce (1816), Carl A. Wirtanen (1910), Forest Ray Moulton (1872), Frank Schlesinger (1871), and Herbert Friedman (1916). After him are Dorothea Klumpke (1861), Henry E. Holt (1929), Brian Schmidt (1967), Jill Tarter (1944), Henry L. Giclas (1910), and Michael E. Brown (1965).