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Piers Sellers

1955 - 2016

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Piers John Sellers (11 April 1955 – 23 December 2016) was a British-American meteorologist, NASA astronaut and Director of the Earth Science Division at NASA/GSFC. He was a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions. Sellers attended Cranbrook School, Cranbrook, Kent, United Kingdom, until 1973, and achieved a bachelor's degree in ecological science from the University of Edinburgh in 1976. In 1981 he gained a doctorate in biometeorology from the University of Leeds. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Piers Sellers has received more than 350,055 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Piers Sellers is the 224th most popular astronaut (down from 176th in 2019), the 4,433rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,740th in 2019) and the most popular British Astronaut.

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  • 350k

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  • 45.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Piers Sellers ranks 224 out of 556. Before him are David M. Brown, Marcos Pontes, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Jerry L. Ross, Joseph P. Allen, and Ivan Bella. After him are André Kuipers, Vladimir Vasyutin, Liu Yang, Taylor Wang, Robert A. Parker, and Yury Onufriyenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Piers Sellers ranks 401. Before him are Agostino Di Bartolomei, Matthias Herget, Michael Steele, Nestor Serrano, Nicolas Hulot, and Muriel Robin. After him are Pascal Dusapin, Howard Jones, Pavel Cebanu, Nikolay Zimyatov, William Hope, and Bruno Barreto. Among people deceased in 2016, Piers Sellers ranks 438. Before him are Roger Dumas, Dušanka Sifnios, Rita Barberá, Larry Drake, Gisela May, and Wim van der Voort. After him are Bobby Hutcherson, Guillaume Bieganski, Denton Cooley, Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, Francisco Flores Pérez, and Jean-Marie Doré.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Piers Sellers ranks 4,433 out of 8,785. Before him are Leander Starr Jameson (1853), Polly Walker (1966), Edgar Evans (1876), Keir Hardie (1856), L. S. Lowry (1887), and Ann Bishop (1899). After him are Peter Morgan (1963), Thomas Lewis (1881), John Prescott (1938), Anthony Newley (1931), Sophie Ellis-Bextor (1979), and Christian Coulson (1978).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United Kingdom

Among astronauts born in United Kingdom, Piers Sellers ranks 1. After him are Michael Foale (1957), Helen Sharman (1963), Gregory H. Johnson (1962), Tim Peake (1972), and Nicholas Patrick (1964).

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