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Matvey Gusev

1826 - 1866

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Matvey Matveyevich Gusev (Russian: Матве́й Матве́евич Гу́сев) (November 28 [O.S. November 16] 1826, Vyatka, Russia–April 22 [O.S. April 10] 1866, Berlin, Germany) was a Russian astronomer who worked at Pulkovo Observatory near St. Petersburg from 1850 to 1852 and then at Vilnius Observatory. In 1860 he founded the first scientific journal dedicated to math and physics in Russia: Vestnik matematicheskikh nauk (Вестник математических наук). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matvey Gusev has received more than 11,523 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Matvey Gusev is the 502nd most popular astronomer (down from 474th in 2019), the 2,133rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,903rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Russian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Matvey Gusev ranks 502 out of 644Before him are Frank Shu, Takao Kobayashi, David C. Jewitt, James Challis, Pierre Puiseux, and Michel Giacobini. After him are Hisashi Kimura, Julie Vinter Hansen, Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker, Bohdan Paczyński, Jane Luu, and Ernest Esclangon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Matvey Gusev ranks 59Before him are Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, Henry Clifton Sorby, Friedrich Chrysander, Lea Ahlborn, Joseph Victor von Scheffel, and Emily Blackwell. After him are Sereno Watson, Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl, José María Medina, José Eusebio Otalora, John Buford, and Varina Davis. Among people deceased in 1866, Matvey Gusev ranks 49Before him are John Ross, Theodor Kotschy, José Ignacio Pavón, Thomas Love Peacock, Henryk Rzewuski, and Joseph Weydemeyer. After him are Manuel Felipe de Tovar, William Henry Harvey, Samuel Ryan Curtis, Robert F. Stockton, John Keble, and Clement Comer Clay.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Matvey Gusev ranks 2,133 out of 3,761Before him are Georgy Adelson-Velsky (1922), Vladimir Salnikov (1960), Boris Kuznetsov (1928), Gombojab Tsybikov (1873), Rufina Gasheva (1921), and Klara Guseva (1937). After him are Manfred Schaefer (1943), Yevgeny Vesnik (1923), German Sveshnikov (1937), Maxim Galkin (1976), Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky (1900), and Igor Dmitriev (1927).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Russia

Among astronomers born in Russia, Matvey Gusev ranks 15Before him are Lyudmila Karachkina (1948), Aristarkh Belopolsky (1854), Benjamin Jekhowsky (1881), Alexander Voeikov (1842), Pelageya Shajn (1894), and Karl Ludwig Littrow (1811). After him are Vera Gaze (1899), Pavel Shternberg (1865), and Lidiya Tseraskaya (1855).