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Frank Watson Dyson

1868 - 1939

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Sir Frank Watson Dyson, KBE, FRS, FRSE (8 January 1868 – 25 May 1939) was an English astronomer and the ninth Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in proving Einstein's theory of general relativity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Watson Dyson has received more than 83,016 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Frank Watson Dyson is the 372nd most popular astronomer (down from 284th in 2019), the 3,049th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,446th in 2019) and the 45th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Frank Watson Dyson ranks 372 out of 644. Before him are Dirk Brouwer, Alvan Graham Clark, Paul Götz, Ralph Copeland, James Edward Keeler, and Johann III Bernoulli. After him are Gérard de Vaucouleurs, Brian G. Marsden, Adrien Auzout, Tadeáš Hájek, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, and Chushiro Hayashi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Frank Watson Dyson ranks 146. Before him are Panagis Tsaldaris, Max von Schillings, Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, Guy de la Chapelle, Paul Warburg, and Wallace Clement Sabine. After him are Reynold A. Nicholson, Jonas Staugaitis, Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky, Ștefan Luchian, Gustav Mie, and Richard Teichmann. Among people deceased in 1939, Frank Watson Dyson ranks 112. Before him are Aleksander Brückner, Henri Jaspar, Ursula Ledóchowska, Olav Duun, Vladislav Khodasevich, and Edmund Beecher Wilson. After him are Eulalio Gutiérrez, Charles P. Dixon, Władysław Raginis, Alberto Palacio, Alfredo Panzini, and Kullervo Manner.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frank Watson Dyson ranks 3,049 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Pococke (1704), Andrew Loog Oldham (1944), Samuel Baker (1821), Thomas Digges (1546), Ted Drake (1912), and Dorothy Garrod (1892). After him are Jimmie Nicol (1939), Felicity Jones (1983), Roy Urquhart (1901), Gladys Cooper (1888), Jack Cardiff (1914), and Richard Hakluyt (1552).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Frank Watson Dyson ranks 45. Before him are Alfred Fowler (1868), Robert T. A. Innes (1861), Richard Christopher Carrington (1826), Herbert Hall Turner (1861), Beatrice Tinsley (1941), and Ralph Copeland (1837). After him are Johann von Lamont (1805), Nathaniel Bliss (1700), Harry Edwin Wood (1881), Harold Spencer Jones (1890), William Rutter Dawes (1799), and Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880).

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