ASTRONOMER

Harold D. Babcock

1882 - 1968

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Harold Delos Babcock (January 24, 1882 – April 8, 1968) was an American astronomer and the father of Horace W. Babcock. He was of English and German ancestry. He was born in Edgerton, Wisconsin, before completing high school in Los Angeles and was accepted to the University of California, Berkeley in 1901. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harold D. Babcock has received more than 24,874 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Harold D. Babcock is the 412th most popular astronomer (up from 450th in 2019), the 6,364th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,403rd in 2019) and the 77th most popular American Astronomer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 1.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Harold D. Babcock ranks 412 out of 644. Before him are Ludwig Biermann, Elizabeth Roemer, Otto Heckmann, Hugo Gyldén, Grigory Shajn, and Harold Spencer Jones. After him are Catherine Cesarsky, William Rutter Dawes, Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Giuseppe Asclepi, Shi Shen, and Lutz D. Schmadel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Harold D. Babcock ranks 200. Before him are Seán T. O'Kelly, Elly Ney, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, Verner Weckman, Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius, and Walter Braunfels. After him are Percy Grainger, Aristarkh Lentulov, Mustafa Subhi, Leonard Meredith, José Luis Tejada Sorzano, and Leonard Nelson. Among people deceased in 1968, Harold D. Babcock ranks 173. Before him are Elly Ney, Naima Wifstrand, Carl Bertilsson, Hamilton Luske, Verner Weckman, and Astrid Cleve. After him are Manuel Bandeira, René Navarre, Archie Mayo, Dan Duryea, Leo Sexton, and Hertha Sponer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harold D. Babcock ranks 6,364 out of 20,380. Before him are Bernard Nathanson (1926), Michael Kremer (1964), Lynn Conway (1938), Jane Greer (1924), Wendell Willkie (1892), and Barbara La Marr (1896). After him are Hunter Tylo (1962), Bobby Womack (1944), Patti Scialfa (1953), Amos Bronson Alcott (1799), Lexington Steele (1969), and George Murdock (1897).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Harold D. Babcock ranks 77. Before him are Henry E. Holt (1929), James L. Elliot (1943), George O. Abell (1927), Paul W. Merrill (1887), Frank Elmore Ross (1874), and Elizabeth Roemer (1929). After him are Joel Stebbins (1878), George Herbig (1920), Jill Tarter (1944), Brian Schmidt (1967), Henry L. Giclas (1910), and Horace W. Babcock (1912).

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