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George William Hill

1838 - 1914

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George William Hill (March 3, 1838 – April 16, 1914) was an American astronomer and mathematician. Working independently and largely in isolation from the wider scientific community, he made major contributions to celestial mechanics and to the theory of ordinary differential equations. The importance of his work was explicitly acknowledged by Henri Poincaré in 1905. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George William Hill has received more than 78,420 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). George William Hill is the 225th most popular astronomer (down from 165th in 2019), the 3,168th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,530th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Astronomer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, George William Hill ranks 225 out of 644. Before him are Heinrich Christian Schumacher, John Bevis, Sergey Belyavsky, Benjamin Baillaud, Johannes Fabricius, and Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner. After him are Antonín Mrkos, Cyril Jackson, Alexis Bouvard, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, Nancy Roman, and Wilhelm Beer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, George William Hill ranks 52. Before him are John Muir, Duke Philipp of Württemberg, James Craig Watson, Nicolae Grigorescu, Yikuang, and Victoria Woodhull. After him are Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, Joel Asaph Allen, Jules Dalou, Paolo Boselli, Szymon Winawer, and Sherburne Wesley Burnham. Among people deceased in 1914, George William Hill ranks 56. Before him are Giovanni Sgambati, David Gill, Pierre Souvestre, Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, Paul Héroult, and Charles Devendeville. After him are Anselmo Lorenzo, Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen, Itō Sukeyuki, George Speck, Delmira Agustini, and Félix Bracquemond.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George William Hill ranks 3,168 out of 20,380. Before him are Dana Ivey (1941), Zac Efron (1987), Angry Grandpa (1950), William Labov (1927), Wesley Clark (1944), and Michael Bishop (1945). After him are John Milius (1944), Anthony Edwards (1962), Alice B. Toklas (1877), Artie Shaw (1910), Richard Hamming (1915), and Lesley Gore (1946).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, George William Hill ranks 38. Before him are William Henry Pickering (1858), Robert Grant Aitken (1864), Eleanor F. Helin (1932), Seth Barnes Nicholson (1891), Milton L. Humason (1891), and Francis Preserved Leavenworth (1858). After him are Nancy Roman (1925), Vesto Slipher (1875), William Wallace Campbell (1862), Joel Hastings Metcalf (1866), Sandra Faber (1944), and George Ellery Hale (1868).

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