1862 - 1917
Frank Muller (September 10, 1862 – April 19, 1917) was an American astronomer. From 1885 he worked in the Leander McCormick Observatory as an assistant to Ormond Stone and Francis Preserved Leavenworth. He discovered ~100 astronomical objects, from NGC catalog and Index catalog, for example NGC 17 in 1886. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Muller has received more than 270,281 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Frank Muller is the 328th most popular astronomer (up from 379th in 2019), the 4,982nd most popular biography from United States and the 62nd most popular American Astronomer.
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Among astronomers, Frank Muller ranks 328 out of 531. Before him are Johann III Bernoulli, Luigi Carnera, Carl Gustav Witt, James Craig Watson, Alvan Clark, and Wilhelm Julius Foerster. After him are Philippe van Lansberge, Jing Fang, Cyril Jackson, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, Holger Thiele, and Vladimir Albitsky.
1744 - 1807
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 322
1875 - 1962
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 323
1866 - 1946
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 324
1838 - 1880
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 325
1804 - 1887
HPI: 49.48
Rank: 326
1832 - 1921
HPI: 49.47
Rank: 327
1862 - 1917
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 328
1561 - 1632
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 329
78 BC - 37 BC
HPI: 49.35
Rank: 330
1903 - 1988
HPI: 49.31
Rank: 331
1718 - 1802
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 332
1878 - 1946
HPI: 49.27
Rank: 333
1891 - 1952
HPI: 49.27
Rank: 334
Among people born in 1862, Frank Muller ranks 100. Before him are Teresa Claramunt Creus, Mykola Pymonenko, Edward Granville Browne, Agnes Pockels, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, and Emil von Sauer. After him are Pyotr Kozlov, Cosmo Duff-Gordon, Theodor Fischer, Aleksander Kakowski, Tang Shaoyi, and Ida B. Wells. Among people deceased in 1917, Frank Muller ranks 74. Before him are Federico Zandomeneghi, Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, Frances Xavier Cabrini, Petter Adolf Karsten, Otto Finsch, and Ivan Aguéli. After him are Friedrich Robert Helmert, William Knox D'Arcy, Aurel Popovici, José Enrique Rodó, Gaston Alibert, and Bob Fitzsimmons.
1862 - 1931
HPI: 50.49
Rank: 94
1862 - 1912
HPI: 50.07
Rank: 95
1862 - 1926
HPI: 49.96
Rank: 96
1862 - 1935
HPI: 49.89
Rank: 97
1862 - 1932
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 98
1862 - 1942
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 99
1862 - 1917
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 100
1862 - 1935
HPI: 49.41
Rank: 101
1862 - 1931
HPI: 49.28
Rank: 102
1862 - 1938
HPI: 49.13
Rank: 103
1862 - 1938
HPI: 49.08
Rank: 104
1862 - 1938
HPI: 49.07
Rank: 105
1862 - 1931
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 106
1841 - 1917
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 68
1841 - 1917
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 69
1850 - 1917
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 70
1834 - 1917
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 71
1839 - 1917
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 72
1869 - 1917
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 73
1862 - 1917
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 74
1843 - 1917
HPI: 49.13
Rank: 75
1849 - 1917
HPI: 48.93
Rank: 76
1863 - 1917
HPI: 48.93
Rank: 77
1871 - 1917
HPI: 48.89
Rank: 78
1878 - 1917
HPI: 48.47
Rank: 79
1863 - 1917
HPI: 48.26
Rank: 80
Among people born in United States, Frank Muller ranks 4,982 out of 18,182. Before him are Tony Joe White (1943), Mike Mangini (1963), Jimmy Cobb (1929), Chris Hughes (1983), Melanie (1947), and David Starr Jordan (1851). After him are Connie Sawyer (1912), Embeth Davidtz (1965), Jamie Hyneman (1956), Tony Visconti (1944), Tony Amendola (1951), and Jason Becker (1969).
1943 - 2018
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 4,976
1963 - Present
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 4,977
1929 - 2020
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 4,978
1983 - Present
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 4,979
1947 - 2024
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 4,980
1851 - 1931
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 4,981
1862 - 1917
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 4,982
1912 - 2018
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 4,983
1965 - Present
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 4,984
1956 - Present
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 4,985
1944 - Present
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 4,986
1951 - Present
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 4,987
1969 - Present
HPI: 49.44
Rank: 4,988
Among astronomers born in United States, Frank Muller ranks 62. Before him are Allan Sandage (1926), Adam Riess (1969), Carl Keenan Seyfert (1911), Daniel Kirkwood (1814), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), and Alvan Clark (1804). After him are Eugene Parker (1927), Paul W. Merrill (1887), David Rittenhouse (1732), Sandra Faber (1944), Catherine Wolfe Bruce (1816), and Carl A. Wirtanen (1910).
1926 - 2010
HPI: 50.30
Rank: 56
1969 - Present
HPI: 50.20
Rank: 57
1911 - 1960
HPI: 50.19
Rank: 58
1814 - 1895
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 59
1867 - 1951
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 60
1804 - 1887
HPI: 49.48
Rank: 61
1862 - 1917
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 62
1927 - 2022
HPI: 49.03
Rank: 63
1887 - 1961
HPI: 48.97
Rank: 64
1732 - 1796
HPI: 48.74
Rank: 65
1944 - Present
HPI: 48.60
Rank: 66
1816 - 1900
HPI: 47.96
Rank: 67
1910 - 1990
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 68