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Mary Watson Whitney

1847 - 1921

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Mary Watson Whitney (September 11, 1847 – January 20, 1921) was an American astronomer and was the head of the Vassar College Observatory for 22 years, where 102 scientific papers were published under her guidance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Watson Whitney has received more than 47,990 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Mary Watson Whitney is the 577th most popular astronomer (down from 459th in 2019), the 11,698th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,599th in 2019) and the 120th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Mary Watson Whitney ranks 577 out of 644. Before her are Kazimierz Kordylewski, A. E. Douglass, Margaret Harwood, Christian Pollas, Kin Endate, and Kenzo Suzuki. After her are James Ferguson, Silvia Torres-Peimbert, Adelaide Ames, Madge Adam, Maura Tombelli, and Arnold Wolfendale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Mary Watson Whitney ranks 104. Before her are Albert Pinkham Ryder, Máximo Santos, Christine Ladd-Franklin, Otto Blehr, Ormond Stone, and Sarah Frances Whiting. After her are John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, John Forrest, and Anna Howard Shaw. Among people deceased in 1921, Mary Watson Whitney ranks 129. Before her are Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten, Léon Moreaux, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, E. W. Hornung, Raymond Thorne, and Henry Hyndman. After her are P. B. S. Pinchback, John Burroughs, Charles B. Cory, Coenraad Hiebendaal, Andrew Watson, and James Mitchel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Watson Whitney ranks 11,698 out of 20,380. Before her are Andrew M. Allen (1955), Steve Albini (1962), Mireille Enos (1975), Sylvia Browne (1936), Gina Philips (1970), and Laura Kelly (1950). After her are Reverend Gary Davis (1896), Ann Gillis (1927), Matt McCoy (1958), Angelina Grimké (1805), Bode Miller (1977), and Jimmy DeGrasso (1963).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Mary Watson Whitney ranks 120. Before her are Robert Herman (1914), David L. Rabinowitz (1960), Peter Goldreich (1939), A. E. Douglass (1867), Margaret Harwood (1885), and Christian Pollas (1947). After her are Adelaide Ames (1900), John Huchra (1948), Jan Kleyna (2000), Dorrit Hoffleit (1907), Geoffrey Marcy (1954), and Chad Trujillo (1973).

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