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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 44,783 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Robert T. A. Innes is the 299th most popular astronomer (down from 275th in 2019), the 2,439th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,369th in 2019) and the 40th most popular British Astronomer.

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Over the past year Robert T. A. Innes has had the most page views in the with 6,002 views, followed by Russian (1,452), and Chinese (1,239). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (516.67%), Icelandic (150.77%), and Basque (66.94%)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Robert T. A. Innes ranks 299 out of 644. Before him are Iosif Shklovsky, Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin, Otto Lesser, Walter Lewin, Alfred Fowler, and Michael van Langren. After him are Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, Edwin Ernest Salpeter, Carl Gustav Witt, Antonia Maury, Hermann von Struve, and Wilhelm Gliese.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Robert T. A. Innes ranks 92. Before him are Nasreddine Dinet, Curt von Bardeleben, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Morgan Robertson, Saovabha Phongsri, and Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg. After him are József Rippl-Rónai, Makino Nobuaki, Lucien Simon, Richard Sears, Fanny Brate, and Herbert Hall Turner. Among people deceased in 1933, Robert T. A. Innes ranks 69. Before him are Ion G. Duca, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro, Zacharia Paliashvili, Robert Kajanus, and Mykola Khvylovy. After him are John Henry Mackay, Lilla Cabot Perry, Mary Ann Bevan, Chen Jiongming, Gustaf Cederström, and James J. Corbett.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert T. A. Innes ranks 2,439 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Bremmer (1953), Arthur Wynne (1871), Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (1478), Thomas Wright (1711), Eddie Clarke (1950), and Ian Khama (1953). After him are Charles James Fox (1749), John Henry Mackay (1864), Prince Maurice of Battenberg (1891), John Shrapnel (1942), Sidney Smith (1764), and Grace Elliott (1754).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Robert T. A. Innes ranks 40. Before him are George Mary Searle (1839), Nevil Maskelyne (1732), Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838), John Machin (1680), John Michell (1724), and Alfred Fowler (1868). After him are Richard Christopher Carrington (1826), Herbert Hall Turner (1861), Beatrice Tinsley (1941), Ralph Copeland (1837), Frank Watson Dyson (1868), and Johann von Lamont (1805).

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