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Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander

1799 - 1875

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Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (22 March 1799 – 17 February 1875) was a German astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander has received more than 45,041 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander is the 72nd most popular astronomer (up from 93rd in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 33rd in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Astronomer.

Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander is most famous for his work in the field of astronomy. He is credited with the discovery of over 2,000 variable stars.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander ranks 72 out of 644. Before him are Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Abu Hanifa Dinawari, Arthur B. McDonald, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, John Flamsteed, and Jacques Cassini. After him are Antonio Abetti, James Bradley, Walter Baade, Fritz Zwicky, Stephen Gray, and David Fabricius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander ranks 8. Before him are Alexander Pushkin, Oscar I of Sweden, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Mary Anning, William Lassell, and Gustav, Prince of Vasa. After him are Karl Bryullov, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Fromental Halévy, Anna Atkins, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, and Rodolphe Töpffer. Among people deceased in 1875, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander ranks 14. Before him are Éliphas Lévi, Isaac Singer, John Edward Gray, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Moses Hess, and Guillaume Henri Dufour. After him are Charles Wheatstone, Pierre Larousse, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 12th Dalai Lama, Amalia of Oldenburg, and Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander ranks 27 out of 328. Before him are Antanas Smetona (1874), Barbara Radziwiłł (1520), Marija Gimbutas (1921), Hacı I Giray (1397), Andrew Schally (1926), and Vytautas Landsbergis (1932). After him are Algirdas Brazauskas (1932), Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (1560), Moshe Arens (1925), Gabriel Narutowicz (1865), Sigismund Kęstutaitis (1365), and Gitanas Nausėda (1964).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Lithuania

Among astronomers born in Lithuania, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander ranks 1. After him are Bohdan Paczyński (1940).

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