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Helen Sawyer Hogg

1905 - 1993

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Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg (August 1, 1905 – January 28, 1993) was an American-Canadian astronomer who pioneered research into globular clusters and variable stars. She was the first female president of several astronomical organizations and a scientist when many universities would not award scientific degrees to women. Her scientific advocacy and journalism included astronomy columns in the Toronto Star ("With the Stars", 1951–81) and the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada ("Out of Old Books", 1946–65). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helen Sawyer Hogg has received more than 75,596 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Helen Sawyer Hogg is the 500th most popular astronomer (down from 473rd in 2019), the 9,322nd most popular biography from United States (down from 8,391st in 2019) and the 109th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Helen Sawyer Hogg ranks 500 out of 531Before her are Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, Irwin I. Shapiro, David L. Rabinowitz, Roy A. Tucker, Hisashi Kimura, and Marc Aaronson. After her are Robert H. McNaught, Hiroki Kosai, Seiji Ueda, Kiichirō Furukawa, Luciano Tesi, and Adriaan van Maanen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Helen Sawyer Hogg ranks 324Before her are László Sternberg, Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum, Georges Grignard, Meade Lux Lewis, Antal Kocsis, and Jacques Mairesse. After her are Chick Webb, Lev Arnshtam, Mulk Raj Anand, Kay Francis, Leroy Carr, and Robert Bacher. Among people deceased in 1993, Helen Sawyer Hogg ranks 243Before her are Roger Michelot, Mary Philbin, Rok Petrovič, Edera Cordiale, Frithjof Ulleberg, and Flora Nwapa. After her are Gert Hofmann, Evelyn Venable, Kenneth Connor, Marjorie Clark, Vladimir Barmin, and Wallace Stegner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Helen Sawyer Hogg ranks 9,322 out of 18,182Before her are Ellsworth Vines (1911), George Fisher (1970), Tress MacNeille (1951), Tom Vilsack (1950), Mike Krzyzewski (1947), and Lewis H. Brereton (1890). After her are Nicholle Tom (1978), Louise Lorraine (1904), Sam Simon (1955), N. C. Wyeth (1882), Roscoe Lockwood (1875), and Bruce Hornsby (1954).

Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Helen Sawyer Hogg ranks 109Before her are Grove Karl Gilbert (1843), John N. Bahcall (1934), Irwin I. Shapiro (1929), David L. Rabinowitz (1960), Roy A. Tucker (1951), and Marc Aaronson (1950). After her are Thomas Bopp (1949), Charles W. Juels (1944), Bruce C. Murray (1931), A. E. Douglass (1867), Christian Pollas (1947), and Geoffrey Marcy (1954).