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ASTRONOMER

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 41,141 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Watson Whitney is the 459th most popular astronomer (up from 460th in 2019), the 7,614th most popular biography from United States and the 95th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Mary Watson Whitney ranks 459 out of 531Before her are William Frederick Denning, Benjamin Banneker, Guillermo Haro, Lipót Schulhof, Margaret Lindsay Huggins, and John Dobson. After her are David Todd Wilkinson, William Robert Brooks, Margaret Geller, William de Wiveleslie Abney, David H. Levy, and Pierre Puiseux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Mary Watson Whitney ranks 84Before her are Anton Reichenow, Ray Lankester, Cesare Arzelà, Vilma Hugonnai, Carlo Alberto Castigliano, and Lipót Schulhof. After her are Morton Betts, Wilhelm Killing, Solomon Schechter, Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Dimitar Grekov, and Wilhelmina Drucker. Among people deceased in 1921, Mary Watson Whitney ranks 105Before her are Jean Aicard, Edward Douglass White, Isak Saba, Leo Königsberger, Abbott Handerson Thayer, and Lipót Schulhof. After her are William Robert Brooks, Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Henry Hyndman, Jean Cau, and Justiniano Borgoño.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Watson Whitney ranks 7,614 out of 18,182Before her are Bebe Daniels (1901), Kate Wilhelm (1928), Richard Lugar (1932), Scott Foley (1972), Noah Baumbach (1969), and George Steinbrenner (1930). After her are Charles Conrad Abbott (1843), Stormy Daniels (1979), Gwendolyn Brooks (1917), Jon-Erik Hexum (1957), Kitty Winn (1944), and Eliza Dushku (1980).

Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Mary Watson Whitney ranks 95Before her are James Gunn (1938), George O. Abell (1927), Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898), Harold D. Babcock (1882), Stephen P. Synnott (1946), and Benjamin Banneker (1731). After her are David Todd Wilkinson (1935), Margaret Geller (1947), Carolyn Porco (1953), Royal Harwood Frost (1879), Edward S. Holden (1846), and DeLisle Stewart (1870).