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Milton L. Humason

1891 - 1972

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Milton La Salle Humason (August 19, 1891 – June 18, 1972) was an American astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Milton L. Humason has received more than 58,974 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Milton L. Humason is the 210th most popular astronomer (up from 225th in 2019), the 2,909th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,362nd in 2019) and the 36th most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 55.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Milton L. Humason ranks 210 out of 644. Before him are Mashallah ibn Athari, Cleomedes, Tamara Smirnova, Timocharis, Bertil Lindblad, and James Ferguson. After him are Dominique, comte de Cassini, David Gill, James Craig Watson, Erasmus Reinhold, Johann Heinrich von Mädler, and Antonio de Ulloa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Milton L. Humason ranks 93. Before him are Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Antoine Pinay, Hans Albers, Ivan Vinogradov, George Adamski, and Laura Vicuña. After him are Elvira de Hidalgo, Maksim Bahdanovič, Alfred Meyer, Danilo Ilić, Julius Raab, and Oskar Kummetz. Among people deceased in 1972, Milton L. Humason ranks 85. Before him are C. W. Ceram, Ernst von Salomon, Nikolay Krylov, René Mayer, Frank Knight, and Lillian Moller Gilbreth. After him are Mohamed Oufkir, Fulbert Youlou, Joseph Paul-Boncour, Richard Courant, James F. Byrnes, and Ángel Romano.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Milton L. Humason ranks 2,909 out of 20,380. Before him are Philip Morrison (1915), J. Walter Christie (1865), Lincoln Ellsworth (1880), Mark Dacascos (1964), Delbert Mann (1920), and Woody Strode (1914). After him are Mary Baker Eddy (1821), Carl Van Vechten (1880), Ellen Church (1904), King C. Gillette (1855), Dean Norris (1963), and Karen Black (1939).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Milton L. Humason ranks 36. Before him are Michael H. Hart (1932), J. Allen Hynek (1910), William Henry Pickering (1858), Robert Grant Aitken (1864), Eleanor F. Helin (1932), and Seth Barnes Nicholson (1891). After him are Francis Preserved Leavenworth (1858), George William Hill (1838), Nancy Roman (1925), Vesto Slipher (1875), William Wallace Campbell (1862), and Joel Hastings Metcalf (1866).

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