ASTRONOMER

Marc Aaronson

1950 - 1987

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Marc Aaronson (August 24, 1950 – April 30, 1987) was an American astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marc Aaronson has received more than 125,951 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Marc Aaronson is the 529th most popular astronomer (down from 499th in 2019), the 9,433rd most popular biography from United States (down from 9,225th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular American Astronomer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

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  • 44.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Marc Aaronson ranks 529 out of 644Before him are Korado Korlević, Okuro Oikawa, Roy A. Tucker, Ľudmila Pajdušáková, William Christie, and Edward S. Holden. After him are John Pond, Yoshisada Shimizu, Robert H. McNaught, Grove Karl Gilbert, Carlos Ulrrico Cesco, and Charles Augustus Young.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Marc Aaronson ranks 520Before him are Kenneth Marshall, Gary Fisher, Danny Sullivan, Loris Kessel, Michael Swanwick, and Paola del Medico. After him are Géza Csapó, Miguel Arias Cañete, Charlie McGettigan, Bertrand Meyer, Philippe Delerm, and Chris Stein. Among people deceased in 1987, Marc Aaronson ranks 226Before him are Dennis Poore, Milt Kahl, Elizabeth Cotten, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Antonio Janni, and Honorino Landa. After him are Clementina de Jesus, Andrei Bărbulescu, Carlos Ulrrico Cesco, Pál Gábor, Ernő Goldfinger, and József Kovács.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marc Aaronson ranks 9,433 out of 20,380Before him are Jason Lewis (1971), Nelson Riddle (1921), Dustin Poirier (1989), Margaret Osborne duPont (1918), Bob Foster (1942), and Dean Kamen (1951). After him are John Berryman (1914), Michael Dunn (1934), Lance Larson (1940), Don Dokken (1953), Ted Lange (1948), and Granville Woods (1856).

Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Marc Aaronson ranks 102Before him are William Wilson Morgan (1906), DeLisle Stewart (1870), Edwin Foster Coddington (1870), John N. Bahcall (1934), Roy A. Tucker (1951), and Edward S. Holden (1846). After him are Grove Karl Gilbert (1843), Charles Augustus Young (1834), Lawrence H. Aller (1913), Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905), Anne Sewell Young (1871), and David Rittenhouse (1732).