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Jeffrey A. Hoffman

1944 - Today

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Jeffrey Alan Hoffman (born November 2, 1944) is an American former NASA astronaut and currently a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. Hoffman made five flights as a Space Shuttle astronaut, including the first mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993, when the orbiting telescope's flawed optical system was corrected. Trained as an astrophysicist, he also flew on the 1990 Spacelab Shuttle mission that featured the Astro-1 ultraviolet astronomical observatory in the Shuttle's payload bay. Over the course of his five missions he logged more than 1,211 hours and 21.5 million miles in space. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeffrey A. Hoffman has received more than 212,475 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jeffrey A. Hoffman is the 118th most popular astronaut (up from 296th in 2019), the 4,433rd most popular biography from United States (up from 11,087th in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 210k

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  • 51.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Jeffrey A. Hoffman ranks 118 out of 556. Before her are Gennady Padalka, Gregory Jarvis, Joseph A. Walker, Vladimir Aksyonov, Leonid Kadeniuk, and Abdul Ahad Mohmand. After her are Vitaly Sevastyanov, Anatoly Levchenko, Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, Muhammed Faris, Shannon Lucid, and Boris Yegorov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Jeffrey A. Hoffman ranks 341. Before her are Richard Robarts, Anthony Heald, Ján Čarnogurský, José Wilker, Jacques-Alain Miller, and Élisabeth Roudinesco. After her are Michael Grätzel, Dennis Franz, Nikolai Karachentsov, Enrique Irazoqui, George Baker, and Ahmed Chalabi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jeffrey A. Hoffman ranks 4,433 out of 20,380. Before her are Alan Wilson (1943), Bud Abbott (1897), Cynthia Rhodes (1956), H.D. (1886), Clarence Clemons (1942), and Gordon Bunshaft (1909). After her are Albert Ayler (1936), Brandi Love (1973), Larry Coryell (1943), Benny Urquidez (1952), Sean Combs (1969), and Diahann Carroll (1935).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Jeffrey A. Hoffman ranks 48. Before her are Stuart Roosa (1933), Kathryn D. Sullivan (1951), Deke Slayton (1924), Scott Carpenter (1925), Gregory Jarvis (1944), and Joseph A. Walker (1921). After her are Vance D. Brand (1931), Sunita Williams (1965), Mae Jemison (1956), Kenneth Cockrell (1950), William R. Pogue (1930), and Edward Gibson (1936).

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