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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 136,491 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Richard Christopher Carrington is the 307th most popular astronomer (up from 313th in 2019), the 2,479th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,648th in 2019) and the 41st most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Richard Christopher Carrington ranks 307 out of 644. Before him are Edwin Ernest Salpeter, Carl Gustav Witt, Antonia Maury, Hermann von Struve, Wilhelm Gliese, and Bartholomaeus Pitiscus. After him are Otto August Rosenberger, Franz Kaiser, Karl Christian Bruhns, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, Adam Riess, and Grigory Neujmin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Richard Christopher Carrington ranks 38. Before him are Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, Charles Barbier de Meynard, Franz Grashof, Karl Gegenbaur, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, and Romuald Traugutt. After him are Mohamed Sherif Pasha, Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, Julia Grant, Adile Sultan, Rahime Perestu Sultan, and Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann. Among people deceased in 1875, Richard Christopher Carrington ranks 52. Before him are John C. Breckinridge, Prosper Guéranger, Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, Petrache Poenaru, Johann Karl Rodbertus, and Robert von Mohl. After him are Carl Jakob Sundevall, Charles Grandison Finney, Mikhail Pogodin, Atanasio Aguirre, Leopold III, Prince of Lippe, and Giovanni Luppis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Christopher Carrington ranks 2,479 out of 8,785. Before him are Sally Hawkins (1976), Barbara Hepworth (1903), David Seaman (1963), William Hunter (1718), David C. H. Austin (1926), and Eric Porter (1928). After him are Würzel (1949), Liam Payne (1993), Bernard Fox (1927), Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888), Corin Redgrave (1939), and Chiwetel Ejiofor (1977).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Richard Christopher Carrington ranks 41. Before him are Nevil Maskelyne (1732), Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838), John Machin (1680), John Michell (1724), Alfred Fowler (1868), and Robert T. A. Innes (1861). After him are Herbert Hall Turner (1861), Beatrice Tinsley (1941), Ralph Copeland (1837), Frank Watson Dyson (1868), Johann von Lamont (1805), and Nathaniel Bliss (1700).

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