1941 - Today
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Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. has received more than 162,224 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. is the 92nd most popular astronomer (down from 85th in 2019), the 1,387th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,225th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Astronomer.
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. is most famous for being the first person to measure the speed of light accurately.
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Among astronomers, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. ranks 92 out of 531. Before him are Abu Maʿshar, Eric Walter Elst, Petrus Apianus, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Angelo Secchi, and Antony Hewish. After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, David Fabricius, Johann Elert Bode, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, William Huggins, and Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth.
787 - 886
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 86
1936 - 2022
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 87
1495 - 1552
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 88
1928 - 1997
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 89
1818 - 1878
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 90
1924 - 2021
HPI: 60.00
Rank: 91
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 92
1799 - 1875
HPI: 59.96
Rank: 93
1564 - 1617
HPI: 59.90
Rank: 94
1747 - 1826
HPI: 59.83
Rank: 95
1580 - 1637
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 96
1824 - 1910
HPI: 59.78
Rank: 97
1892 - 1979
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 98
Among people born in 1941, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. ranks 87. Before him are Kyu Sakamoto, Graham Chapman, Linda McCartney, Martin Evans, Aimé Jacquet, and Bertrand Tavernier. After him are Robert Wilson, William Nordhaus, Carlo Maria Viganò, Josip Skoblar, Princess Muna al-Hussein, and Alfred G. Gilman.
1941 - 1985
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 81
1941 - 1989
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 82
1941 - 1998
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 83
1941 - Present
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 84
1941 - Present
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 85
1941 - 2021
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 86
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 87
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 88
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 89
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.84
Rank: 90
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 91
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 92
1941 - 2015
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 93
Among people born in United States, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. ranks 1,387 out of 18,182. Before him are Rosemary Kennedy (1918), Paul Stanley (1952), Tom Ford (1961), Ethan Hawke (1970), Barnett Newman (1905), and Jane Wyman (1917). After him are Mary Todd Lincoln (1818), John Sturges (1910), Wes Anderson (1969), Richard Winters (1918), David Morse (1953), and Ken Thompson (1943).
1918 - 2005
HPI: 60.00
Rank: 1,381
1952 - Present
HPI: 60.00
Rank: 1,382
1961 - Present
HPI: 59.99
Rank: 1,383
1970 - Present
HPI: 59.99
Rank: 1,384
1905 - 1970
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 1,385
1917 - 2007
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 1,386
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 1,387
1818 - 1882
HPI: 59.96
Rank: 1,388
1910 - 1992
HPI: 59.96
Rank: 1,389
1969 - Present
HPI: 59.96
Rank: 1,390
1918 - 2011
HPI: 59.95
Rank: 1,391
1953 - Present
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 1,392
1943 - Present
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 1,393
Among astronomers born in United States, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. ranks 16. Before him are Vera Rubin (1928), Percival Lowell (1855), Russell Alan Hulse (1950), Lewis A. Swift (1820), Edward Emerson Barnard (1857), and Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928). After him are J. Allen Hynek (1910), James Van Allen (1914), Frank Drake (1930), Edward Charles Pickering (1846), Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929), and Henry Norris Russell (1877).
1928 - 2016
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 10
1855 - 1916
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 11
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 12
1820 - 1913
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 13
1857 - 1923
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 14
1928 - 1997
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 15
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 16
1910 - 1986
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 17
1914 - 2006
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 18
1930 - 2022
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 19
1846 - 1919
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 20
1929 - 2021
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 21
1877 - 1957
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 22