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ASTRONOMER

Jill Tarter

1944 - Today

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Jill Cornell Tarter (born January 16, 1944) is an American astronomer best known for her work on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Tarter is the former director of the Center for SETI Research, holding the Bernard M. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jill Tarter has received more than 213,156 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Jill Tarter is the 394th most popular astronomer (up from 406th in 2019), the 6,240th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,383rd in 2019) and the 76th most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 47.13

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Jill Tarter ranks 394 out of 531Before her are Ludwig Biermann, Brian Schmidt, William Christie, Tsutomu Seki, Bart Bok, and Geoffrey Burbidge. After her are Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, Mary Ward, Janet Akyüz Mattei, Lutz D. Schmadel, Hugo von Seeliger, and Richard Schorr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Jill Tarter ranks 408Before her are Rudi Assauer, Vladimir Spivakov, Gallego, Ene Ergma, José Manuel García-Margallo, and José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán. After her are Caleb Deschanel, Takeshi Ono, Patrick Devedjian, Joseph Benz, Said Musa, and Andrew Loog Oldham.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jill Tarter ranks 6,240 out of 18,182Before her are John Bell Hood (1831), Sylvanus Morley (1883), Ruby Bridges (1954), David Keith (1954), Jack Parsons (1914), and Ferde Grofé (1892). After her are Harry Beaumont (1888), Mark Boone Junior (1955), Charles Daniels (1885), Casey Kasem (1932), Lhasa de Sela (1972), and Ben Sharpsteen (1895).

Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Jill Tarter ranks 76Before her are Frank Schlesinger (1871), Herbert Friedman (1916), Frank Elmore Ross (1874), Dorothea Klumpke (1861), Henry E. Holt (1929), and Brian Schmidt (1967). After her are Henry L. Giclas (1910), Michael E. Brown (1965), Horace W. Babcock (1912), Elizabeth Roemer (1929), Joel Stebbins (1878), and William Wilson Morgan (1906).