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James Challis

1803 - 1882

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James Challis FRS (12 December 1803 – 3 December 1882) was an English clergyman, physicist and astronomer. Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy and the director of the Cambridge Observatory, he investigated a wide range of physical phenomena though made few lasting contributions outside astronomy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Challis has received more than 52,522 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. James Challis is the 499th most popular astronomer (down from 491st in 2019), the 4,268th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,424th in 2019) and the 60th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, James Challis ranks 499 out of 644. Before him are William Wilson Morgan, Yuji Hyakutake, Robert Emden, Frank Shu, Takao Kobayashi, and David C. Jewitt. After him are Pierre Puiseux, Michel Giacobini, Matvey Gusev, Hisashi Kimura, Julie Vinter Hansen, and Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, James Challis ranks 71. Before him are Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen, Heinrich Ewald, George Borrow, Friedrich Ludwig Persius, Juan Bravo Murillo, and Sarah Yorke Jackson. After him are Karl Schorn, Carl Jacob Löwig, Manuel Felipe de Tovar, Jules d'Anethan, Jacob Abbott, and Domingo Nieto. Among people deceased in 1882, James Challis ranks 70. Before him are Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff, Ion Andreescu, James Spriggs Payne, George Perkins Marsh, William Barton Rogers, and William Harrison Ainsworth. After him are William Shanks, Francisco Javier Zaldúa, Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, Nain Singh, Thomas Romney Robinson, and Richard Henry Dana Jr..

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Challis ranks 4,268 out of 8,785. Before him are Kenneth Clark (1903), Susanna Clarke (1959), Glenn Cornick (1947), Stan Mortensen (1921), Frances O'Connor (1967), and Dorothea Bate (1878). After him are Ernest Henry Wilson (1876), Jadon Sancho (2000), Michelle Ryan (1984), Alex Turner (1986), Frank Wild (1873), and Simon West (1961).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, James Challis ranks 60. Before him are Edward Pigott (1753), Geoffrey Burbidge (1925), Mary Adela Blagg (1858), William Henry Smyth (1788), Patrick Moore (1923), and David C. Jewitt (1958). After him are William Christie (1845), John Pond (1767), Robert H. McNaught (1956), Andrew Ainslie Common (1841), Thomas Brisbane (1773), and Richard A. Proctor (1837).

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