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Maria Mitchell

1818 - 1889

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Maria Mitchell ( mə-RY-ə; August 1, 1818 – June 28, 1889) was an American astronomer, librarian, naturalist, and educator. In 1847, she discovered a comet named 1847 VI (modern designation C/1847 T1) that was later known as "Miss Mitchell's Comet" in her honor. She won a gold medal prize for her discovery, which was presented to her by King Christian VIII of Denmark in 1848. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Mitchell has received more than 457,050 page views. Her biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Maria Mitchell is the 125th most popular astronomer (up from 144th in 2019), the 1,685th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,179th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Astronomer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Maria Mitchell ranks 125 out of 644. Before her are Ernst Öpik, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Cleveland Abbe, Eric Walter Elst, Ali Qushji, and Hermann Goldschmidt. After her are Alphonse Borrelly, Tom Gehrels, Annibale de Gasparis, Maslama al-Majriti, E. M. Antoniadi, and John Goodricke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Maria Mitchell ranks 31. Before her are Frederick Douglass, Zachris Topelius, Emperor Norton, Francesco Crispi, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, and Richard Jordan Gatling. After her are Emil du Bois-Reymond, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Tewodros II, Infante Carlos, Count of Montemolin, Max Joseph von Pettenkofer, and Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Among people deceased in 1889, Maria Mitchell ranks 19. Before her are Charles III, Prince of Monaco, Marie of Prussia, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Wilhelm Tempel, and Giovanni Bottesini. After her are Robert Browning, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, John Ericsson, and Ignacy Domeyko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Maria Mitchell ranks 1,685 out of 20,380. Before her are Stephen Jay Gould (1941), Héctor Elizondo (1936), Rex Stout (1886), Peter Bogdanovich (1939), Robert Wilson (1941), and Jerry Reed (1937). After her are Ralph Bellamy (1904), Seymour Hersh (1937), Diane Lane (1965), Alan Kay (1940), Michael P. Anderson (1959), and Griffin Dunne (1955).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Maria Mitchell ranks 23. Before her are Annie Jump Cannon (1863), James Van Allen (1914), Henry Norris Russell (1877), Edward Charles Pickering (1846), Frank Drake (1930), and Cleveland Abbe (1838). After her are Dorothea Klumpke (1861), Henry Draper (1837), Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929), Andrea M. Ghez (1965), George Phillips Bond (1825), and Harlow Shapley (1885).

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