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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 227,658 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Jill Tarter is the 439th most popular astronomer (down from 394th in 2019), the 6,734th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,227th in 2019) and the 80th most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 230k

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  • 47.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Jill Tarter ranks 439 out of 644. Before her are Cuno Hoffmeister, George Van Biesbroeck, George Herbig, William Frederick Denning, Dilhan Eryurt, and Odette Bancilhon. After her are Gottfried Kirch, Warren De la Rue, Brian Schmidt, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Zinaida Aksentyeva, and Henry L. Giclas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Jill Tarter ranks 474. Before her are Valeriy Porkujan, Mick Jones, Dennis Russell Davies, Alan Woods, Boris Klyuyev, and Nancy Cartwright. After her are Francesco Morini, Oscar Temaru, John Kay, John Onaiyekan, José Manuel García-Margallo, and Richard Gant.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jill Tarter ranks 6,734 out of 20,380. Before her are Wynton Marsalis (1961), Ina Claire (1893), Robert Bacon (1860), Deborah Shelton (1948), Kvitka Cisyk (1953), and Arlie Russell Hochschild (1940). After her are Harley Race (1943), Noah Baumbach (1969), Laurance Rockefeller (1910), Brian Schmidt (1967), Nick Adams (1931), and Bill Walton (1952).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Jill Tarter ranks 80. Before her are Paul W. Merrill (1887), Frank Elmore Ross (1874), Elizabeth Roemer (1929), Harold D. Babcock (1882), Joel Stebbins (1878), and George Herbig (1920). After her are Brian Schmidt (1967), Henry L. Giclas (1910), Horace W. Babcock (1912), Benjamin Banneker (1731), Charles W. Juels (1944), and Frank Schlesinger (1871).

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