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ASTRONOMER

Ralph Copeland

1837 - 1905

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Ralph Copeland FRSE FRAS (3 September 1837 – 27 October 1905) was an English astronomer and the third Astronomer Royal for Scotland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ralph Copeland has received more than 12,351 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ralph Copeland is the 430th most popular astronomer (down from 401st in 2019), the 3,650th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,292nd in 2019) and the 52nd most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Ralph Copeland ranks 430 out of 531Before him are Edwin Foster Coddington, Albert George Wilson, Robert Julius Trumpler, James L. Elliot, Cleveland Abbe, and Alfred Bohrmann. After him are Schelte J. Bus, Chushiro Hayashi, Pelageya Shajn, Edward Pigott, James Gunn, and Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Ralph Copeland ranks 90Before him are Wilhelm Kühne, Thomas Moran, Anna Filosofova, Joseph Schröter, William Dean Howells, and Petre P. Carp. After him are José Burgos, Peter Lesgaft, Carl Koldewey, Leo Königsberger, Atis Kronvalds, and Pedro Varela. Among people deceased in 1905, Ralph Copeland ranks 74Before him are René Goblet, Victor Borisov-Musatov, Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, Émile Oustalet, Étienne Desmarteau, and William Thomas Blanford. After him are Raimundo Fernández-Villaverde, Harold Mahony, Vjenceslav Novak, Juan Lindolfo Cuestas, Lizardo Montero Flores, and Alexander Melville Bell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ralph Copeland ranks 3,650 out of 7,765Before him are Edward Carpenter (1844), Major Ritchie (1870), Tobias Furneaux (1735), Craig Armstrong (1959), John Miles (1943), and Duncan Jones (1971). After him are Innes Ireland (1930), Peter Firth (1953), William Harrison Ainsworth (1805), Annie Kenney (1879), Leonard Meredith (1882), and Helen Shapiro (1946).

Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Ralph Copeland ranks 52Before him are Harry Edwin Wood (1881), Harold Spencer Jones (1890), William Christie (1845), Geoffrey Burbidge (1925), John Pond (1767), and Herbert Hall Turner (1861). After him are Edward Pigott (1753), William Rutter Dawes (1799), William Henry Smyth (1788), Beatrice Tinsley (1941), Patrick Moore (1923), and William Frederick Denning (1848).