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Richard Christopher Carrington

1826 - 1875

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Richard Christopher Carrington (26 May 1826 – 27 November 1875) was an English amateur astronomer whose 1859 astronomical observations demonstrated the existence of solar flares as well as suggesting their electrical influence upon the Earth and its aurorae; and whose 1863 records of sunspot observations revealed the differential rotation of the Sun. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Christopher Carrington has received more than 121,422 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Christopher Carrington is the 313th most popular astronomer (down from 284th in 2019), the 2,655th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,382nd in 2019) and the 41st most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Richard Christopher Carrington ranks 313 out of 531Before him are Giorgio Abetti, Fang Lizhi, Daniel Kirkwood, Johann von Lamont, Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, and Charles Dillon Perrine. After him are Edward Sabine, Christine Kirch, Tadeáš Hájek, Gérard de Vaucouleurs, Adrien Auzout, and André Patry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Richard Christopher Carrington ranks 39Before him are Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Karl Gegenbaur, Charles Barbier de Meynard, Franz Grashof, and Mohamed Sherif Pasha. After him are Princess Augusta of Württemberg, Gustave Moynier, Domenico Morelli, Julia Grant, Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, and İbrahim Şinasi. Among people deceased in 1875, Richard Christopher Carrington ranks 54Before him are Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Charles Grandison Finney, Johann Karl Rodbertus, Charles Kingsley, Francisco Coll Guitart, and Leopold III, Prince of Lippe. After him are Carl Jakob Sundevall, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, George Pickett, Atanasio Aguirre, Mikhail Pogodin, and José María Ventura Casas.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Christopher Carrington ranks 2,655 out of 7,765Before him are Arthur Russell (1886), Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond (1672), Reginald Punnett (1875), Minnie Driver (1970), Charles Warren (1840), and John Turner (1929). After him are John Henry Mackay (1864), Ian Stewart (1945), I. A. Richards (1893), Humphrey Gilbert (1539), Barry Morse (1918), and Mary Sidney (1561).

Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Richard Christopher Carrington ranks 41Before him are Robert T. A. Innes (1861), John Machin (1680), Frank Watson Dyson (1868), Nathaniel Bliss (1700), Norman Lockyer (1836), and Johann von Lamont (1805). After him are Cyril Jackson (1903), Brian G. Marsden (1937), Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880), Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838), Harry Edwin Wood (1881), and Harold Spencer Jones (1890).