1851 - 1922
Prof Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn FRS FRSE LLD (19 January 1851 – 18 June 1922) was a Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way. He found that the apparent movement of stars was not randomly distributed but had two preferential directions: the two star streams. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacobus Kapteyn has received more than 97,647 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Jacobus Kapteyn is the 156th most popular astronomer, the 276th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 264th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Dutch Astronomer.
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Among astronomers, Jacobus Kapteyn ranks 156 out of 531. Before him are Eugène Joseph Delporte, Hermann Carl Vogel, Bernard Lyot, George Phillips Bond, Nicole-Reine Lepaute, and Jean Chacornac. After him are Jean Picard, Tobias Mayer, Vesto Slipher, Andreas Cellarius, N. R. Pogson, and Henry Draper.
1882 - 1955
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 150
1841 - 1907
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 151
1897 - 1952
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 152
1825 - 1865
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 153
1723 - 1788
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 154
1823 - 1873
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 155
1851 - 1922
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 156
1620 - 1682
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 157
1723 - 1762
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 158
1875 - 1969
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 159
1596 - 1665
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 160
1829 - 1891
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 161
1837 - 1882
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 162
Among people born in 1851, Jacobus Kapteyn ranks 33. Before him are Emilia Pardo Bazán, Charles Dow, Franz von Liszt, Guillaume Bigourdan, Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Désiré-Joseph Mercier. After him are Theodor Lipps, Melvil Dewey, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, Charles Dupuy, Arne Garborg, and Stephan Burián von Rajecz. Among people deceased in 1922, Jacobus Kapteyn ranks 51. Before him are Wolfgang Kapp, Eugen Ehrlich, Gaston, Count of Eu, Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Paul Durand-Ruel, and Karl Michael Ziehrer. After him are Sidney Sonnino, Stephan Burián von Rajecz, Alexander Antonov, Felip Pedrell, Joseph Oller, and Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.
1851 - 1921
HPI: 56.48
Rank: 27
1851 - 1902
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 28
1851 - 1919
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 29
1851 - 1932
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 30
1851 - 1928
HPI: 55.95
Rank: 31
1851 - 1926
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 32
1851 - 1922
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 33
1851 - 1914
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 34
1851 - 1931
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 35
1851 - 1940
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 36
1851 - 1923
HPI: 54.81
Rank: 37
1851 - 1924
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 38
1851 - 1922
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 39
1858 - 1922
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 45
1862 - 1922
HPI: 56.93
Rank: 46
1842 - 1922
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 47
1861 - 1922
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 48
1831 - 1922
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 49
1843 - 1922
HPI: 56.11
Rank: 50
1851 - 1922
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 51
1847 - 1922
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 52
1851 - 1922
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 53
1889 - 1922
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 54
1841 - 1922
HPI: 54.09
Rank: 55
1839 - 1922
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 56
1850 - 1922
HPI: 53.95
Rank: 57
Among people born in Netherlands, Jacobus Kapteyn ranks 276 out of 1,427. Before him are Hendrik Verwoerd (1901), Willem van Hanegem (1944), Geert Wilders (1963), William I, Count of Holland (1167), Emanuel de Witte (1617), and Jan Peter Balkenende (1956). After him are Jacob van Campen (1596), Armin van Buuren (1976), Hercules Seghers (1589), Aert de Gelder (1645), Henk Sneevliet (1883), and Abraham van Beijeren (1620).
1901 - 1966
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 270
1944 - Present
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 271
1963 - Present
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 272
1167 - 1222
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 273
1617 - 1692
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 274
1956 - Present
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 275
1851 - 1922
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 276
1596 - 1657
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 277
1976 - Present
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 278
1589 - 1638
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 279
1645 - 1727
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 280
1883 - 1942
HPI: 55.69
Rank: 281
1620 - 1690
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 282
Among astronomers born in Netherlands, Jacobus Kapteyn ranks 7. Before him are Jan Oort (1900), Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692), Gerard Kuiper (1905), Tom Gehrels (1925), Cornelis Johannes van Houten (1920), and Antonie Pannekoek (1873). After him are John Goodricke (1764), Walter Lewin (1936), Adriaan Blaauw (1914), Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845), Michael van Langren (1598), and Maarten Schmidt (1929).
1900 - 1992
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 1
1692 - 1761
HPI: 63.25
Rank: 2
1905 - 1973
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 3
1925 - 2011
HPI: 58.02
Rank: 4
1920 - 2002
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 5
1873 - 1960
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 6
1851 - 1922
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 7
1764 - 1786
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 8
1936 - Present
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 9
1914 - 2010
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 10
1845 - 1904
HPI: 51.75
Rank: 11
1598 - 1675
HPI: 49.60
Rank: 12
1929 - 2022
HPI: 49.17
Rank: 13