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Frank Muller

1862 - 1917

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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 288,560 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Frank Muller is the 346th most popular astronomer (down from 328th in 2019), the 4,994th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,970th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Frank Muller ranks 346 out of 644. Before him are Daniel Kirkwood, Adriaan van Maanen, Edward Sabine, Hugo von Seeliger, Charles Dillon Perrine, and James W. Christy. After him are Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, Takeshi Urata, Eugene Parker, Herbert Friedman, Hervé Faye, and Bart Bok.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Frank Muller ranks 104. Before him are Pyotr Kozlov, Teresa Claramunt Creus, Wilhelm Solf, Marcel Prévost, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, and Christopher Cradock. After him are John de Robeck, Charles Laval, Emil von Sauer, Edward Granville Browne, Aleksander Kakowski, and Cosmo Duff-Gordon. Among people deceased in 1917, Frank Muller ranks 75. Before him are Ecaterina Teodoroiu, Friedrich Robert Helmert, Federico Zandomeneghi, Judith Gautier, William Knox D'Arcy, and Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer. After him are Ivan Aguéli, Gaston Alibert, Bob Fitzsimmons, Aurel Popovici, Kristian Zahrtmann, and José Enrique Rodó.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Muller ranks 4,994 out of 20,380. Before him are Henry Paulson (1946), Kevin Smith (1970), Louise Bryant (1885), Judy Collins (1939), Sam Jones (1933), and Bonnie Bartlett (1929). After him are William Masters (1915), Joanne Dru (1922), Joseph Colombo (1923), Ronee Blakley (1945), Henry Gibson (1935), and Leon Russell (1942).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Frank Muller ranks 63. Before him are Lewis Boss (1846), Alvan Clark (1804), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), Daniel Kirkwood (1814), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), and James W. Christy (1938). After him are Eugene Parker (1927), Herbert Friedman (1916), Heber Doust Curtis (1872), Carl Keenan Seyfert (1911), Alvan Graham Clark (1832), and James Edward Keeler (1857).

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