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Lewis Boss

1846 - 1912

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Lewis Boss (26 October 1846 – 5 October 1912) was an American astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lewis Boss has received more than 17,411 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Lewis Boss is the 315th most popular astronomer (down from 272nd in 2019), the 4,530th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,126th in 2019) and the 57th most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 17k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Lewis Boss ranks 315 out of 644. Before him are Franz Kaiser, Karl Christian Bruhns, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, Adam Riess, Grigory Neujmin, and Maurice Loewy. After him are Louis Boyer, Georges Rayet, Sylvain Arend, Nils Christoffer Dunér, Ercole Dembowski, and Maarten Schmidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Lewis Boss ranks 70. Before him are Charles Stewart Parnell, Martin Wegelius, Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Max von Hausen, Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz, and Anna Kingsford. After him are Marie Popelin, William Robertson Smith, Basil III of Constantinople, Friedrich Paulsen, Johann Most, and Whitcomb L. Judson. Among people deceased in 1912, Lewis Boss ranks 82. Before him are Clara Barton, Henri Brisson, José Canalejas, Émile Lemoine, Andrew Lang, and Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo. After him are Dmitry Milyutin, Walter Clopton Wingfield, William Wilson, Jaroslav Vrchlický, Francis Davis Millet, and Joachim III of Constantinople.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lewis Boss ranks 4,530 out of 20,380. Before him are Rob Zombie (1965), Lydia Clarke (1923), Sasha Grey (1988), Amanda Plummer (1957), George Segal (1924), and Anna Coleman Ladd (1878). After him are Kim Stanley Robinson (1952), Dorothy Gibson (1889), John Tate (1925), Jubal Early (1816), Clyde Tolson (1900), and Crawford Long (1815).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Lewis Boss ranks 57. Before him are Allan Sandage (1926), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), Charles T. Kowal (1940), Albert George Wilson (1918), Antonia Maury (1866), and Adam Riess (1969). After him are Alvan Clark (1804), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), Daniel Kirkwood (1814), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), James W. Christy (1938), and Frank Muller (1862).

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