1855 - 1916
Percival Lowell (; March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, and furthered theories of a ninth planet within the Solar System. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Percival Lowell has received more than 539,825 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Percival Lowell is the 62nd most popular astronomer (down from 51st in 2019), the 1,014th most popular biography from United States (down from 812th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Astronomer.
Percival Lowell was an American astronomer who is most famous for his belief that there was a planet in the outer solar system beyond Neptune.
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Among astronomers, Percival Lowell ranks 62 out of 531. Before him are Pierre Méchain, Girolamo Fracastoro, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Martin Ryle, Jacques Cassini, and Vera Rubin. After him are Ejnar Hertzsprung, Sosigenes of Alexandria, Gerard Kuiper, Riccardo Giacconi, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, and George Darwin.
1744 - 1804
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 56
1476 - 1553
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 57
1793 - 1864
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 58
1918 - 1984
HPI: 62.29
Rank: 59
1677 - 1756
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 60
1928 - 2016
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 61
1855 - 1916
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 62
1873 - 1967
HPI: 61.99
Rank: 63
80 BC - 100 BC
HPI: 61.98
Rank: 64
1905 - 1973
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 65
1931 - 2018
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 66
1822 - 1875
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 67
1845 - 1912
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 68
Among people born in 1855, Percival Lowell ranks 9. Before him are John Browning, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Otto Liman von Sanders, Émile Verhaeren, Ernest Chausson, and Eleanor Marx. After him are Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Paul Deschanel, Ned Kelly, Robert de Montesquiou, Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal, and Arthur Nikisch. Among people deceased in 1916, Percival Lowell ranks 33. Before him are Max Reger, Émile Verhaeren, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Gaston Maspero, Rubén Darío, and Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz. After him are Jean Webster, Gérard Encausse, Victoriano Huerta, Julius Fučík, Pierre Duhem, and Vasily Surikov.
1855 - 1926
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 3
1855 - 1927
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 4
1855 - 1929
HPI: 64.55
Rank: 5
1855 - 1916
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 6
1855 - 1899
HPI: 62.33
Rank: 7
1855 - 1898
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 8
1855 - 1916
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 9
1855 - 1935
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 10
1855 - 1922
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 11
1855 - 1880
HPI: 60.73
Rank: 12
1855 - 1921
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 13
1855 - 1944
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 14
1855 - 1922
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 15
1873 - 1916
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 27
1855 - 1916
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 28
1864 - 1916
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 29
1846 - 1916
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 30
1867 - 1916
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 31
1843 - 1916
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 32
1855 - 1916
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 33
1876 - 1916
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 34
1865 - 1916
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 35
1850 - 1916
HPI: 60.18
Rank: 36
1872 - 1916
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 37
1861 - 1916
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 38
1848 - 1916
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 39
Among people born in United States, Percival Lowell ranks 1,014 out of 18,182. Before him are Howard H. Aiken (1900), Steve Buscemi (1957), Rosalynn Carter (1927), Alfred Stieglitz (1864), John Mott (1865), and Keith Jarrett (1945). After him are Jean Webster (1876), Anne Hathaway (1982), Robert W. Holley (1922), Chester Bennington (1976), Ed Wood (1924), and Mark David Chapman (1955).
1900 - 1973
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 1,008
1957 - Present
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 1,009
1927 - Present
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 1,010
1864 - 1946
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 1,011
1865 - 1955
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 1,012
1945 - Present
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 1,013
1855 - 1916
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 1,014
1876 - 1916
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 1,015
1982 - Present
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 1,016
1922 - 1993
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 1,017
1976 - 2017
HPI: 62.06
Rank: 1,018
1924 - 1978
HPI: 62.05
Rank: 1,019
1955 - Present
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 1,020
Among astronomers born in United States, Percival Lowell ranks 11. Before him are William Alfred Fowler (1911), Charles Greeley Abbot (1872), Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868), Asaph Hall (1829), Clyde Tombaugh (1906), and Vera Rubin (1928). After him are Russell Alan Hulse (1950), Lewis A. Swift (1820), Edward Emerson Barnard (1857), Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928), Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1941), and J. Allen Hynek (1910).
1911 - 1995
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 5
1872 - 1973
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 6
1868 - 1921
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 7
1829 - 1907
HPI: 64.25
Rank: 8
1906 - 1997
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 9
1928 - 2016
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 10
1855 - 1916
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 11
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 12
1820 - 1913
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 13
1857 - 1923
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 14
1928 - 1997
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 15
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 16
1910 - 1986
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 17