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Mary Proctor

1862 - 1957

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Mary Proctor (1 April 1862 – 11 September 1957) was a British-American popularizer of astronomy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Proctor has received more than 21,053 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Mary Proctor is the 539th most popular astronomer (down from 529th in 2019), the 297th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 338th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Irish Astronomer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 21k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Mary Proctor ranks 539 out of 644. Before her are Grove Karl Gilbert, Carlos Ulrrico Cesco, Charles Augustus Young, Kiichirō Furukawa, Ruby Payne-Scott, and Seiji Ueda. After her are Lawrence H. Aller, Andrew Ainslie Common, Walter Frederick Gale, Gary Hug, György Kulin, and Helen Sawyer Hogg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Mary Proctor ranks 148. Before her are Semyon Nadson, Frank Weston Benson, Andrés Héctor Carvallo, Oscar Levertin, Júlia Lopes de Almeida, and Santeri Alkio. After her are Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, Robert Reid, Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller, Helen Bannerman, Herbert Baker, and Carrie Derick. Among people deceased in 1957, Mary Proctor ranks 204. Before her are James M. Cox, Helene Costello, Grigory Landsberg, William Murrill, Guillaume Grandidier, and Ralph Barton Perry. After her are Jack Butler Yeats, Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, Ezio Pinza, Katie Johnson, Keith Andrews, and Gene Lockhart.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Mary Proctor ranks 297 out of 549. Before her are Liam O'Flaherty (1896), Albert Reynolds (1932), Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet (1715), Denis Irwin (1965), Graham Norton (1963), and Brian Shawe-Taylor (1915). After her are Geraldine Somerville (1967), Michael O'Leary (1961), Katie McGrath (1983), John McKenna (1855), George Brent (1904), and Tom Kiely (1869).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Ireland

Among astronomers born in Ireland, Mary Proctor ranks 6. Before her are Andrew Graham (1815), Edward Sabine (1788), Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848), Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (1865), and Agnes Mary Clerke (1842). After her are Thomas Romney Robinson (1792), and Mary Ward (1827).

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