ASTRONAUT

Loren Acton

1936 - Today

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Loren Wilber Acton (born 7 March 1936) is an American physicist who flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-51-F as a Payload Specialist for the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Loren Acton has received more than 83,765 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Loren Acton is the 233rd most popular astronaut (down from 225th in 2019), the 9,115th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,869th in 2019) and the 91st most popular American Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 84k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Loren Actons by language

Over the past year Loren Acton has had the most page views in the with 7,462 views, followed by Arabic (1,076), and Chinese (1,061). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (90.31%), Malagasy (85.38%), and Galician (82.18%)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Loren Acton ranks 233 out of 556. Before him are Liu Yang, Taylor Wang, Robert A. Parker, Yury Onufriyenko, Ernst Messerschmid, and Mikhail Tyurin. After him are Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, John Oliver Creighton, Nikolai Budarin, Jean-Pierre Haigneré, Jean-Jacques Favier, and Soichi Noguchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Loren Acton ranks 478. Before him are Gerry Ashmore, Aleksei Mamykin, Lyudmila Pinayeva, Jerry Sanders, Leo Wilden, and Gerald Scarfe. After him are M. Scott Peck, Hannu Salama, Ferenc Németh, Tivadar Monostori, Yoshihisa Yoshikawa, and Volker Strassen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Loren Acton ranks 9,115 out of 20,380. Before him are William Z. Foster (1881), Mark Esper (1964), Caleb Landry Jones (1989), Chaz Bono (1969), Joe Bonamassa (1977), and Kathryn McGuire (1903). After him are Sylvester Graham (1794), Nicholas Colasanto (1924), Caroline Smith (1906), Wovoka (1856), Mitzi Gaynor (1931), and Stephen Colbert (1964).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Loren Acton ranks 91. Before him are James P. Bagian (1952), David M. Brown (1956), Bonnie J. Dunbar (1949), Jerry L. Ross (1948), Joseph P. Allen (1937), and Robert A. Parker (1936). After him are Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (1963), John Oliver Creighton (1943), Millie Hughes-Fulford (1945), Samuel T. Durrance (1943), Daniel Brandenstein (1943), and Jan Davis (1953).

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