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James Glaisher

1809 - 1903

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James Glaisher FRS (7 April 1809 – 7 February 1903) was an English meteorologist, aeronaut and astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Glaisher has received more than 1,178,868 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). James Glaisher is the 160th most popular astronomer (up from 233rd in 2019), the 1,339th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,042nd in 2019) and the 21st most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, James Glaisher ranks 160 out of 644. Before him are Abu Maʿshar, Andrea M. Ghez, Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, George Phillips Bond, John Russell Hind, and Edward Walter Maunder. After him are Franz Xaver von Zach, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann, Norman Lockyer, Nicole-Reine Lepaute, Williamina Fleming, and Harlow Shapley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, James Glaisher ranks 19. Before him are William Ewart Gladstone, Ljudevit Gaj, Hermann Grassmann, Juliusz Słowacki, Prince Albert of Prussia, and Bettino Ricasoli. After him are Juan Donoso Cortés, Luigi Federico Menabrea, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, Sebastián Iradier, Fredrik Pacius, and Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel. Among people deceased in 1903, James Glaisher ranks 25. Before him are James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Richard Jordan Gatling, Camillo Sitte, Marcel Renault, Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, and Sabino Arana. After him are Ronglu, Sophie Gengembre Anderson, Gaston Paris, Apolinario Mabini, Hans Gude, and Rudolf Lipschitz.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Glaisher ranks 1,339 out of 8,785. Before him are Michael Houghton (1949), John Russell Hind (1823), Victor Turner (1920), Edward Walter Maunder (1851), Malcolm McLaren (1946), and Horace Walpole (1717). After him are Paul Scholes (1974), Thomas Tew (1649), George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784), Anne Perry (1938), Roger Fenton (1819), and Edmund Kean (1787).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, James Glaisher ranks 21. Before him are William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800), James Dunlop (1793), Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900), George Biddell Airy (1801), John Russell Hind (1823), and Edward Walter Maunder (1851). After him are Norman Lockyer (1836), Williamina Fleming (1857), William Robert Brooks (1844), Margaret Burbidge (1919), N. R. Pogson (1829), and Edward L. G. Bowell (1943).

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