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Henry Draper

1837 - 1882

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Henry Draper (March 7, 1837 – November 20, 1882) was an American medical doctor and amateur astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Draper has received more than 80,527 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Henry Draper is the 140th most popular astronomer (up from 162nd in 2019), the 1,840th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,479th in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Astronomer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 81k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Henry Draper ranks 140 out of 644. Before him are James Dunlop, Hermann Carl Vogel, Nikolai Chernykh, Maria Margaretha Kirch, Dorothea Klumpke, and Giovanni Battista Hodierna. After him are Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, August Kopff, Johann Daniel Titius, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, and Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Henry Draper ranks 35. Before him are Édouard Stephan, Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, Abraham Kuyper, James Murray, Joseph Bell, and Arnold Janssen. After him are Algernon Charles Swinburne, Wild Bill Hickok, Pierre Auguste Cot, Maria Domenica Mazzarello, Théodore Dubois, and Georg Ebers. Among people deceased in 1882, Henry Draper ranks 23. Before him are Vasily Perov, Ewelina Hańska, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Sergey Nechayev, Henri Giffard, and Mikhail Skobelev. After him are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Joachim Raff, and Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Draper ranks 1,840 out of 20,380. Before him are Mary Steenburgen (1953), Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848), Tom Regan (1938), Marcia Cross (1962), Nina Hartley (1959), and Richard Schiff (1955). After him are Spike Lee (1957), Robert Jordan (1948), Roger Corman (1926), Nora Roberts (1950), Joey Ramone (1951), and Paul Desmond (1924).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Henry Draper ranks 25. Before him are Henry Norris Russell (1877), Edward Charles Pickering (1846), Frank Drake (1930), Cleveland Abbe (1838), Maria Mitchell (1818), and Dorothea Klumpke (1861). After him are Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929), Andrea M. Ghez (1965), George Phillips Bond (1825), Harlow Shapley (1885), Michael H. Hart (1932), and J. Allen Hynek (1910).

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