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James Craig Watson

1838 - 1880

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James Craig Watson (January 28, 1838 – November 23, 1880) was a Canadian-American astronomer, discoverer of comets and minor planets, director of the University of Michigan's Detroit Observatory in Ann Arbor, and awarded with the Lalande Prize in 1869. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Craig Watson has received more than 41,579 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). James Craig Watson is the 213th most popular astronomer (up from 325th in 2019), the 140th most popular biography from Canada (up from 242nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, James Craig Watson ranks 213 out of 644. Before him are Timocharis, Bertil Lindblad, James Ferguson, Milton L. Humason, Dominique, comte de Cassini, and David Gill. After him are Erasmus Reinhold, Johann Heinrich von Mädler, Antonio de Ulloa, Rudolf Wolf, Francis Preserved Leavenworth, and Heinrich Christian Schumacher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, James Craig Watson ranks 48. Before him are Lucien Olivier, Henry Sidgwick, Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, Prince Louis, Count of Trani, John Muir, and Duke Philipp of Württemberg. After him are Nicolae Grigorescu, Yikuang, Victoria Woodhull, George William Hill, Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, and Joel Asaph Allen. Among people deceased in 1880, James Craig Watson ranks 22. Before him are John Sutter, Léon Cogniet, Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger, Ole Bull, Arnold Ruge, and Sunanda Kumariratana. After him are Oliver Winchester, Friedrich Bayer, Jules Favre, Raden Saleh, Sanford Robinson Gifford, and Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, James Craig Watson ranks 140 out of 1,622. Before him are Katheryn Winnick (1977), Louis Riel (1844), Rocky Johnson (1944), Gil Evans (1912), Eugene Levy (1946), and Tom Cavanagh (1963). After him are Peter Cullen (1941), Raymond Burr (1917), Jordan Peterson (1962), David Foster (1949), William B. Davis (1938), and Paul Watson (1950).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Canada

Among astronomers born in Canada, James Craig Watson ranks 4. Before him are Arthur B. McDonald (1943), Hubert Reeves (1932), and John Stanley Plaskett (1865). After him are David H. Levy (1948), Carlyle S. Beals (1899), Wendy Freedman (1957), Brett J. Gladman (1966), Sara Seager (1971), Linda A. Morabito (1953), and Dale Frail (1961).

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