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Norman Lockyer

1836 - 1920

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Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer (17 May 1836 – 16 August 1920) was an English scientist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen, he is credited with discovering the gas helium. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Norman Lockyer has received more than 156,708 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Norman Lockyer is the 306th most popular astronomer (up from 310th in 2019), the 2,613th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,436th in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Norman Lockyer ranks 306 out of 531Before him are Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Adam Riess, Carl Keenan Seyfert, Marguerite Laugier, Nathaniel Bliss, and Richard Martin West. After him are Giorgio Abetti, Fang Lizhi, Daniel Kirkwood, Johann von Lamont, Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, and Charles Dillon Perrine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Norman Lockyer ranks 54Before him are Andrés Avelino Cáceres, Giuseppe Abbati, Alfred Grandidier, Edward Poynter, Walery Antoni Wróblewski, and Ernst von Bergmann. After him are Emil Hartmann, Bret Harte, Ferdinand Monoyer, Robert Swinhoe, Michał Elwiro Andriolli, and Adolf Schwarz. Among people deceased in 1920, Norman Lockyer ranks 74Before him are Hermann von Struve, John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Pál Szinyei Merse, Wilhelm Pfeffer, Heinrich Lammasch, and Jaan Poska. After him are Augusto Righi, Alexandru Macedonski, Nasrullah Khan, Edmund Barton, John Gilbert Baker, and Moritz Cantor.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Norman Lockyer ranks 2,613 out of 7,765Before him are Jeremy Bulloch (1945), Ralph Abercromby (1734), Sergey Kapitsa (1928), Amanda Tapping (1965), Rory McCann (1969), and Harry Seeley (1839). After him are Kathleen Kenyon (1906), Ron Flowers (1934), Alan Young (1919), Edmund Leach (1910), Mary Dyer (1611), and Tony Atkinson (1944).

Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Norman Lockyer ranks 39Before him are George Mary Searle (1839), David Gill (1843), Robert T. A. Innes (1861), John Machin (1680), Frank Watson Dyson (1868), and Nathaniel Bliss (1700). After him are Johann von Lamont (1805), Richard Christopher Carrington (1826), Cyril Jackson (1903), Brian G. Marsden (1937), Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880), and Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838).