ASTRONOMER

Harry Edwin Wood

1881 - 1946

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Harry Edwin Wood (3 February 1881 – 27 February 1946) was an English astronomer, director of the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, and discoverer of minor planets.Wood was born in Manchester, graduating from Manchester University in 1902 with first class honours in physics, going on to gain an MSc in 1905. In 1906 he was appointed the Chief Assistant at the Transvaal Meteorological Observatory, which soon acquired telescopes and which became known as the Union Observatory and later Republic Observatory. In July 1906, he established South Africa's first 24-hour weather forecasts through telegraph in the Transvaal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Edwin Wood has received more than 12,356 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Harry Edwin Wood is the 402nd most popular astronomer (down from 375th in 2019), the 3,270th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,160th in 2019) and the 48th most popular British Astronomer.

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  • 12k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Harry Edwin Woods by language

Over the past year Harry Edwin Wood has had the most page views in the with 1,270 views, followed by Russian (787), and Low Saxon (521). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (100.78%), Esperanto (100.00%), and Basque (97.33%)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Harry Edwin Wood ranks 402 out of 644. Before him are Julius Schiller, Friedrich Tietjen, Marguerite Laugier, Vladimir Kotelnikov, Paris Pişmiş, and Richard Schorr. After him are Paul W. Merrill, Lyudmila Karachkina, Frank Elmore Ross, Ludwig Biermann, Elizabeth Roemer, and Otto Heckmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Harry Edwin Wood ranks 165. Before him are Clive Bell, Fernand Sanz, Otto Toeplitz, Lewis Fry Richardson, Jetze Doorman, and Madge Syers. After him are Mordecai Kaplan, Abdulla Shaig, Patrick Ryan, Benjamin Jekhowsky, Francis Ford, and Tommy Burns. Among people deceased in 1946, Harry Edwin Wood ranks 178. Before him are Wen Yiduo, Leo Slezak, Eugene Lanceray, Bill Johnston, Danuta Siedzikówna, and Lionel Dunsterville. After him are Federigo Enriques, Alfred Stock, Nikolay Burdenko, Blanche Bingley, Olivér Halassy, and Kate Bruce.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Harry Edwin Wood ranks 3,270 out of 8,785. Before him are Wulfhere of Mercia (650), Donald Sumpter (1943), Joe Fagan (1921), Michael Green (1946), N. E. Brown (1849), and Keith Campbell (1954). After him are Vic Buckingham (1915), Ramón Zabalo (1910), Marina Sirtis (1955), Alexander Gardner (1821), Doreen Massey (1944), and Cliff Allison (1932).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Harry Edwin Wood ranks 48. Before him are Herbert Hall Turner (1861), Beatrice Tinsley (1941), Ralph Copeland (1837), Frank Watson Dyson (1868), Johann von Lamont (1805), and Nathaniel Bliss (1700). After him are Harold Spencer Jones (1890), William Rutter Dawes (1799), Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880), William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843), William Frederick Denning (1848), and Edward Pigott (1753).

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