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John Louis Emil Dreyer

1852 - 1926

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John Louis Emil Dreyer (13 February 1852 – 14 September 1926), also Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer, was a Danish astronomer who spent most of his career working in Ireland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Louis Emil Dreyer has received more than 69,791 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). John Louis Emil Dreyer is the 115th most popular astronomer (up from 136th in 2019), the 140th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 173rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Danish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, John Louis Emil Dreyer ranks 115 out of 644. Before him are Henry Norris Russell, Karl Ludwig Harding, William Huggins, Édouard Stephan, Mary Somerville, and Edward Charles Pickering. After him are Walter Sydney Adams, Heinrich Schwabe, Frank Drake, Ernst Öpik, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, and Cleveland Abbe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, John Louis Emil Dreyer ranks 32. Before him are Julius Richard Petri, Daniel Burley Woolfall, Hipólito Yrigoyen, Christian Krohg, Victor Adler, and Pietro Gasparri. After him are Hans Vaihinger, Edmund Leighton, Ion Luca Caragiale, Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, Max von Gallwitz, and I. L. Peretz. Among people deceased in 1926, John Louis Emil Dreyer ranks 32. Before him are Viktor Vasnetsov, Victor, Prince Napoléon, Mikao Usui, William Bateson, Ellen Key, and Friedrich von Wieser. After him are Knut Wicksell, Alphonse Borrelly, Émile Coué, Ugyen Wangchuck, Eino Leino, and Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, John Louis Emil Dreyer ranks 140 out of 1,032. Before him are Gudfred (800), Lars Ulrich (1963), Charles I, Count of Flanders (1083), Magnus II of Sweden (1130), Gabriel Axel (1918), and Wilhelm Johannsen (1857). After him are Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776), Princess Charlotte of Denmark (1789), Otto Jespersen (1860), Jesper Christensen (1948), Magnus, Duke of Holstein (1540), and Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel (1784).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Denmark

Among astronomers born in Denmark, John Louis Emil Dreyer ranks 3. Before him are Ole Rømer (1644), and Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873). After him are Peter Andreas Hansen (1795), Richard Martin West (1941), Christen Sørensen Longomontanus (1562), Holger Thiele (1878), Julie Vinter Hansen (1890), and Anja Cetti Andersen (1965).

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