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Heber Doust Curtis

1872 - 1942

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Heber Doust Curtis (June 27, 1872 – January 9, 1942) was an American astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heber Doust Curtis has received more than 61,240 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Heber Doust Curtis is the 362nd most popular astronomer (down from 220th in 2019), the 5,360th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,286th in 2019) and the 66th most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 50.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Heber Doust Curtis ranks 362 out of 644. Before him are Christopher Hansteen, Georg Marcgrave, Beatrice Tinsley, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Kiyotsugu Hirayama, and Giorgio Abetti. After him are Jean Richer, Carl Keenan Seyfert, Richard Martin West, Dirk Brouwer, Alvan Graham Clark, and Paul Götz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Heber Doust Curtis ranks 124. Before him are Elia Dalla Costa, Selma Rıza, Johan Pitka, Nikola Mushanov, Lorenzo Perosi, and Karin Michaëlis. After him are Siegmund von Hausegger, Paul-Émile Janson, Léon Delagrange, Barbu Știrbey, Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, and Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed. Among people deceased in 1942, Heber Doust Curtis ranks 164. Before him are Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Heinrich Burger, Nicholas Adontz, Emil von Sauer, Demetrios Petrokokkinos, and Racho Petrov. After him are Yevgeny Petrov, Romà Forns, Carl Sternheim, Hugo Distler, Jerzy Różycki, and Refik Saydam.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Heber Doust Curtis ranks 5,360 out of 20,380. Before him are John Scofield (1951), Pamela Reed (1949), Hubert Dreyfus (1929), Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826), Jay Garner (1938), and Keenen Ivory Wayans (1958). After him are Buffy Sainte-Marie (1941), Leo Huberman (1903), Karl Struss (1886), Kevin MacLeod (1972), Daniela Ruah (1983), and Willie Mays (1931).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Heber Doust Curtis ranks 66. Before him are Daniel Kirkwood (1814), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), James W. Christy (1938), Frank Muller (1862), Eugene Parker (1927), and Herbert Friedman (1916). After him are Carl Keenan Seyfert (1911), Alvan Graham Clark (1832), James Edward Keeler (1857), Margaret Geller (1947), Henry E. Holt (1929), and James L. Elliot (1943).

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