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James Dunlop

1793 - 1848

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James Dunlop FRSE (31 October 1793 – 22 September 1848) was a Scottish astronomer, noted for his work in Australia. He was employed by Sir Thomas Brisbane to work as astronomer's assistant at his private observatory, once located at Paramatta (now named Parramatta), New South Wales, about 23 kilometres (14 mi) west of Sydney during the 1820s and 1830s. Dunlop was mostly a visual observer, doing stellar astrometry work for Brisbane, and after its completion, then independently discovered and catalogued many new telescopic southern double stars and deep-sky objects. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Dunlop has received more than 52,683 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). James Dunlop is the 201st most popular astronomer (up from 214th in 2019), the 1,828th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,910th in 2019) and the 26th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, James Dunlop ranks 201 out of 531. Before him are Maximilian Hell, Mariam al-Asturlabi, Otto Struve, Edward Walter Maunder, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, and Johann Heinrich von Mädler. After him are Johannes Fabricius, Rudolf Wolf, William Wallace Campbell, Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, Guillaume Le Gentil, and Edward L. G. Bowell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, James Dunlop ranks 23. Before him are Tokugawa Ieyoshi, Princess Caroline of Denmark, Karl Lachmann, Philipp Veit, Baldomero Espartero, and George Green. After him are Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov, Demetrios Ypsilantis, Pavel Pestel, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, and Aleksander Fredro. Among people deceased in 1848, James Dunlop ranks 30. Before him are John Jacob Astor, Duchess Amelia of Württemberg, Christen Købke, Horace Wells, Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, and Keisai Eisen. After him are Pierre Wantzel, Pellegrino Rossi, Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom, Robert Blum, Manto Mavrogenous, and Felix Lichnowsky.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Dunlop ranks 1,828 out of 7,765. Before him are Henry Percy (1364), Ian Callaghan (1942), Alan Sillitoe (1928), William Renshaw (1861), Robert Catesby (1573), and Vanessa Bell (1879). After him are Kathleen Ferrier (1912), Alan Wilder (1959), Michael Sheen (1969), Limahl (1958), Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset (1499), and Malcolm Arnold (1921).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, James Dunlop ranks 26. Before him are Williamina Fleming (1857), N. R. Pogson (1829), Margaret Burbidge (1919), John Bevis (1695), Francis Baily (1774), and Edward Walter Maunder (1851). After him are Edward L. G. Bowell (1943), Alfred Fowler (1868), James Ferguson (1797), John Michell (1724), James Glaisher (1809), and Nevil Maskelyne (1732).

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