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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 344,082 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Piers Sellers is the 176th most popular astronaut (up from 207th in 2019), the 3,748th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,023rd in 2019) and the most popular British Astronaut.

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  • 45.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Piers Sellers ranks 176 out of 524. Before him are Valeri Tokarev, Laurel Clark, Patrick Baudry, Yuri Malenchenko, Claudie Haigneré, and Robert Crippen. After him are Lodewijk van den Berg, Boris Morukov, Paolo Nespoli, Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov, Frank De Winne, and John Oliver Creighton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Piers Sellers ranks 281. Before him are Francesco Guidolin, Patrick Achi, William Kentridge, Martin Hoffmann, Susi Sánchez, and Juliusz Machulski. After him are Bärbel Wöckel, Kristine Sutherland, Ásgeir Sigurvinsson, Darius Khondji, Karen Dotrice, and Yitang Zhang. Among people deceased in 2016, Piers Sellers ranks 350. Before him are James Joseph Dresnok, Bobby Vee, Tom M. Apostol, Amelia Bence, Adolf Born, and Henning Enoksen. After him are Tom Kibble, Frano Selak, Burt Kwouk, Roger Dumas, Howard Marks, and Hugh O'Brian.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Piers Sellers ranks 3,748 out of 7,765. Before him are John Braine (1922), Adolph Deutsch (1897), Will Champion (1978), William McGregor (1846), Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855), and Michael Rennie (1909). After him are Amy Macdonald (1987), William Powell Frith (1819), William Tenn (1920), William Robertson (1721), John Powell (1963), and William Rutter Dawes (1799).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United Kingdom

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

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