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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Edwin Wood has received more than 12,513 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Harry Edwin Wood is the 375th most popular astronomer (down from 322nd in 2019), the 3,168th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,697th in 2019) and the 46th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Harry Edwin Wood ranks 375 out of 531. Before him are Peter van de Kamp, Forest Ray Moulton, Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Frank Schlesinger, Caterina Scarpellini, and Herbert Friedman. After him are Frank Elmore Ross, Harold Spencer Jones, Benjamin Markarian, Dorothea Klumpke, Catherine Cesarsky, and Christian August Friedrich Peters.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Harry Edwin Wood ranks 140. Before him are Arkady Averchenko, Louis Bastien, Eugen Bolz, Jérôme Carcopino, Edgar Leonard, and Smedley Butler. After him are Jess Willard, Otto Toeplitz, Fernand Sanz, Mordecai Kaplan, Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet, and Ludwig Kaas. Among people deceased in 1946, Harry Edwin Wood ranks 165. Before him are Maud Watson, Juan Antonio Ríos, Pantelis Karasevdas, Rafael Erich, Jacob Ellehammer, and Nikolay Burdenko. After him are Camillo Caccia Dominioni, Federico Laredo Brú, Eugene Lanceray, Lionel Dunsterville, Antti Hackzell, and Federigo Enriques.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Harry Edwin Wood ranks 3,168 out of 7,765. Before him are Geoff Bent (1932), Alan Bennett (1934), Gwendoline Christie (1978), Billie Whitelaw (1932), Michael Mann (1942), and Charles Dawson (1864). After him are Mike Parkes (1931), Laura Mulvey (1941), John Marshall (1876), Estelle Winwood (1883), Michael Wilding (1912), and Tommy Douglas (1904).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Harry Edwin Wood ranks 46. Before him are Johann von Lamont (1805), Richard Christopher Carrington (1826), Cyril Jackson (1903), Brian G. Marsden (1937), Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880), and Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838). After him are Harold Spencer Jones (1890), William Christie (1845), Geoffrey Burbidge (1925), John Pond (1767), Herbert Hall Turner (1861), and Ralph Copeland (1837).

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