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Johann von Lamont

1805 - 1879

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Johann von Lamont, FRSE (13 December 1805 – 6 August 1879), born John Lamont, was a Scottish-German astronomer and physicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann von Lamont has received more than 21,055 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Johann von Lamont is the 379th most popular astronomer (down from 310th in 2019), the 3,096th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,640th in 2019) and the 46th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Johann von Lamont ranks 379 out of 644Before her are Gérard de Vaucouleurs, Brian G. Marsden, Adrien Auzout, Tadeáš Hájek, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, and Chushiro Hayashi. After her are Christoph Arnold, Margaret Geller, André Patry, Henry E. Holt, James L. Elliot, and Alenush Terian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Johann von Lamont ranks 56Before her are Infanta Maria da Assunção of Braganza, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Johann Eduard Erdmann, Mary Seacole, Esteban Echeverría, and William Lloyd Garrison. After her are Victor Baltard, Karl Ferdinand Sohn, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Hugo von Mohl, Josef Danhauser, and Eugène Devéria. Among people deceased in 1879, Johann von Lamont ranks 48Before her are Joseph Hooker, Peter Michal Bohúň, Immanuel Hermann Fichte, Lyuben Karavelov, Rowland Hill, and William Lloyd Garrison. After her are William Froude, Marguerite Bays, Édouard Spach, Jakob Stämpfli, Peter Arnold Heise, and László Paál.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Johann von Lamont ranks 3,096 out of 8,785Before her are George Bass (1771), Thomas Moran (1837), James Robertson Justice (1907), Siouxsie Sioux (1957), Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (1472), and Winston Graham (1908). After her are Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (1435), Anthony Andrews (1948), Frederick Twort (1877), William Withering (1741), Geoff Duke (1923), and Dave Holland (1948).

Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Johann von Lamont ranks 46Before her are Robert T. A. Innes (1861), Richard Christopher Carrington (1826), Herbert Hall Turner (1861), Beatrice Tinsley (1941), Ralph Copeland (1837), and Frank Watson Dyson (1868). After her are Nathaniel Bliss (1700), Harry Edwin Wood (1881), Harold Spencer Jones (1890), William Rutter Dawes (1799), Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880), and William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843).