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Joel Hastings Metcalf

1866 - 1925

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Joel Hastings Metcalf (January 4, 1866 – February 23, 1925) was an American astronomer, humanitarian and minister. Reverend Metcalf graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1892. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joel Hastings Metcalf has received more than 14,250 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Joel Hastings Metcalf is the 193rd most popular astronomer (up from 204th in 2019), the 2,935th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,038th in 2019) and the 35th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Joel Hastings Metcalf ranks 193 out of 531. Before him are Lyudmila Chernykh, Robert Grant Aitken, Yrjö Väisälä, Francis Baily, Bertil Lindblad, and Jean Fernel. After him are Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, Maximilian Hell, Mariam al-Asturlabi, Otto Struve, Edward Walter Maunder, and Giovanni Domenico Maraldi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Joel Hastings Metcalf ranks 53. Before him are Emile Vandervelde, Ramon Casas, Princess Viktoria of Prussia, Johann Strauss III, Kazys Grinius, and Franz von Bayros. After him are Stamata Revithi, Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera, Wakatsuki Reijirō, Carlos Schwabe, Holger Nielsen, and Georg Jensen. Among people deceased in 1925, Joel Hastings Metcalf ranks 68. Before him are John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, Sheikh Said, Johan August Brinell, Louis Feuillade, Myer Prinstein, and Stefan Żeromski. After him are Nikolai Golitsyn, Aristide Bruant, Chittaranjan Das, Grigory Kotovsky, Antonio Maura, and Pablo Iglesias Posse.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joel Hastings Metcalf ranks 2,935 out of 18,182. Before him are Kurtwood Smith (1943), Jonathan Franzen (1959), Joel Asaph Allen (1838), Jerry Brudos (1939), Linda Nochlin (1931), and Bill Hewlett (1913). After him are Dolores Costello (1903), S. S. Van Dine (1888), Ted Williams (1918), June Allyson (1917), Terry Goodkind (1948), and Gene Krupa (1909).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Joel Hastings Metcalf ranks 35. Before him are George William Hill (1838), Andrea M. Ghez (1965), Michael H. Hart (1932), William Henry Pickering (1858), Francis Preserved Leavenworth (1858), and Robert Grant Aitken (1864). After him are William Wallace Campbell (1862), James W. Christy (1938), Seth Barnes Nicholson (1891), Heber Doust Curtis (1872), Milton L. Humason (1891), and George Ellery Hale (1868).

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