ASTRONOMER

Nancy Roman

1925 - 2018

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Nancy Grace Roman (May 16, 1925 – December 25, 2018) was an American astronomer who made important contributions to stellar classification and motions. The first female executive at NASA, Roman served as NASA's first Chief of Astronomy throughout the 1960s and 1970s, establishing her as one of the "visionary founders of the US civilian space program". Roman created NASA's space astronomy program and is known to many as the "Mother of Hubble" for her foundational role in planning the Hubble Space Telescope. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nancy Roman has received more than 275,493 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Nancy Roman is the 230th most popular astronomer (down from 227th in 2019), the 3,245th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,399th in 2019) and the 39th most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 54.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Nancy Roman ranks 230 out of 644. Before her are Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, George William Hill, Antonín Mrkos, Cyril Jackson, Alexis Bouvard, and Jérôme Eugène Coggia. After her are Wilhelm Beer, Adriaan Blaauw, Wang Zhenyi, Maximilian Hell, Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi, and Agrippa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Nancy Roman ranks 165. Before her are John Cocke, Bill Gates Sr., Emilio Eduardo Massera, Johnny Carson, Kalle Svensson, and Bauer. After her are Alexei Tupolev, Elmore Leonard, Doris Hart, June Whitfield, John DeLorean, and Yuval Ne'eman. Among people deceased in 2018, Nancy Roman ranks 143. Before her are Roger Piantoni, Eunice Gayson, Ola Ullsten, Trần Đại Quang, Walter Mischel, and Sergio Marchionne. After her are Per Kirkeby, Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, Rachid Taha, Darío Castrillón Hoyos, John Gavin, and June Whitfield.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nancy Roman ranks 3,245 out of 20,380. Before her are Barbara O'Neil (1910), Clifford Brown (1930), Joel Asaph Allen (1838), Garret Hobart (1844), Lee Krasner (1908), and Barry Goldwater (1909). After her are Gall (1840), Charles Grodin (1935), Clarence Brown (1890), L. Sprague de Camp (1907), Rebbie Jackson (1950), and Benjamin Spock (1903).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Nancy Roman ranks 39. Before her are Robert Grant Aitken (1864), Eleanor F. Helin (1932), Seth Barnes Nicholson (1891), Milton L. Humason (1891), Francis Preserved Leavenworth (1858), and George William Hill (1838). After her are Vesto Slipher (1875), William Wallace Campbell (1862), Joel Hastings Metcalf (1866), Sandra Faber (1944), George Ellery Hale (1868), and Catherine Wolfe Bruce (1816).

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