ASTRONOMER

Harold Spencer Jones

1890 - 1960

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Sir Harold Spencer Jones KBE FRS FRSE PRAS (29 March 1890 – 3 November 1960) was an English astronomer. He became renowned as an authority on positional astronomy and served as the tenth Astronomer Royal for 23 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harold Spencer Jones has received more than 45,475 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Harold Spencer Jones is the 411th most popular astronomer (down from 377th in 2019), the 3,375th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,178th in 2019) and the 49th most popular British Astronomer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Harold Spencer Jones ranks 411 out of 644. Before him are Frank Elmore Ross, Ludwig Biermann, Elizabeth Roemer, Otto Heckmann, Hugo Gyldén, and Grigory Shajn. After him are Harold D. Babcock, Catherine Cesarsky, William Rutter Dawes, Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Giuseppe Asclepi, and Shi Shen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Harold Spencer Jones ranks 174. Before him are Lev Chernyi, José Piendibene, Armas Taipale, Naima Wifstrand, Lily Kronberger, and Percy Hodge. After him are Mykola Zerov, Ellen Osiier, Gopinath Bordoloi, Isaak Zelensky, Karl Patterson Schmidt, and Maurice McLoughlin. Among people deceased in 1960, Harold Spencer Jones ranks 154. Before him are The Great Gama, Willem Elsschot, Frank Elmore Ross, Hasan Saka, Joseph Wendel, and Pedro Arispe. After him are Agnes Arber, Leonard Warren, Bogoljub Jevtić, Roscoe Lockwood, Gaston Amson, and Harry Blanchard.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Harold Spencer Jones ranks 3,375 out of 8,785. Before him are Simone Perrotta (1977), Peter Ackroyd (1949), Alexander McDonnell (1798), Robert W. Paul (1869), Gillian Rubinstein (1942), and David Octavius Hill (1802). After him are Henry Bishop (1786), Freddie Bartholomew (1924), Patrick Malahide (1945), David Cox (1924), John Shakespeare (1530), and Susan George (1950).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Harold Spencer Jones ranks 49. Before him are Beatrice Tinsley (1941), Ralph Copeland (1837), Frank Watson Dyson (1868), Johann von Lamont (1805), Nathaniel Bliss (1700), and Harry Edwin Wood (1881). After him are William Rutter Dawes (1799), Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880), William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843), William Frederick Denning (1848), Edward Pigott (1753), and Geoffrey Burbidge (1925).

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