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Robert T. A. Innes

1861 - 1933

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Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes FRSE FRAS (10 November 1861 – 13 March 1933) was a British-born South African astronomer best known for discovering Proxima Centauri in 1915, and numerous binary stars. He was also the first astronomer to have seen the Great January Comet of 1910, on 12 January. He was the founding director of a meteorological observatory in Johannesburg, which was later converted to an astronomical observatory and renamed to Union Observatory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert T. A. Innes has received more than 45,322 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Robert T. A. Innes is the 275th most popular astronomer (down from 229th in 2019), the 2,375th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,002nd in 2019) and the 35th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Robert T. A. Innes ranks 275 out of 531. Before him are Laurent Cassegrain, Jean Richer, Carl Charlier, Lewis Boss, Charles Wolf, and Grigory Neujmin. After him are Maria Clara Eimmart, Karl Christian Bruhns, Mashallah ibn Athari, Edwin Ernest Salpeter, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, and Liisi Oterma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Robert T. A. Innes ranks 83. Before him are Meir Dizengoff, Kurt Hensel, Jacques-Émile Blanche, James Mark Baldwin, Curt von Bardeleben, and Carl Moll. After him are Kadambini Ganguly, Paul Ranson, Ludwig Thuille, József Rippl-Rónai, Saovabha Phongsri, and Lucien Simon. Among people deceased in 1933, Robert T. A. Innes ranks 59. Before him are Frank Jarvis, Prince Alfons of Bavaria, Albert Apponyi, Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt, Toktogul Satylganov, and Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro. After him are Arnold Mendelssohn, Yisrael Meir Kagan, Boris Rosing, Chen Jiongming, Zacharia Paliashvili, and Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert T. A. Innes ranks 2,375 out of 7,765. Before him are James Guillaume (1844), Pauline Moran (1947), Alfred Edwards (1850), Tania Mallet (1941), Peg Entwistle (1908), and W. Ross Ashby (1903). After him are Claude Choules (1901), John Hick (1922), Walter Map (1140), Henry Peach Robinson (1830), James Nasmyth (1808), and Nevil Shute (1899).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Robert T. A. Innes ranks 35. Before him are James Ferguson (1797), John Michell (1724), James Glaisher (1809), Nevil Maskelyne (1732), George Mary Searle (1839), and David Gill (1843). After him are John Machin (1680), Frank Watson Dyson (1868), Nathaniel Bliss (1700), Norman Lockyer (1836), Johann von Lamont (1805), and Richard Christopher Carrington (1826).

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