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Royal Harwood Frost

1879 - 1950

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Royal Harwood Frost (25 February 1879 – 11 May 1950) was an American astronomer, born in Salem, Massachusetts to Albinus Finney Frost and Emma Jane Richardson, the fourth son of a family of ten. He married Caroline Eliza Mayhew with whom he had three daughters (Caroline Frost, Martha Richardson Frost and Barbara Frost) and two sons (Royal Harwood Frost Jr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Royal Harwood Frost has received more than 10,976 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Royal Harwood Frost is the 467th most popular astronomer (down from 456th in 2019), the 7,740th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,687th in 2019) and the 99th most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 44.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Royal Harwood Frost ranks 467 out of 531. Before him are William Robert Brooks, Margaret Geller, William de Wiveleslie Abney, David H. Levy, Pierre Puiseux, and Carolyn Porco. After him are Edward S. Holden, DeLisle Stewart, Fyodor Bredikhin, Bohdan Paczyński, Robert Emden, and Ernest Leonard Johnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Royal Harwood Frost ranks 189. Before him are Gabriel Miró, Arthur Johnson, Vivian Woodward, Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Otto Nilsson, and Ferenc Móra. After him are Maurice Vignerot, Sara Allgood, Rupert Julian, Aimée Antoinette Camus, Alexandros Othonaios, and Patrick Abercrombie. Among people deceased in 1950, Royal Harwood Frost ranks 158. Before him are John M. Stahl, Frederick Keeping, Henryk Grossman, Fats Navarro, Elisabeth Langgässer, and Rex Ingram. After him are Sara Allgood, Miguel Mariano Gómez, Jaroslav Kvapil, Peter Kemp, Riccardo Nowak, and Oscar Osthoff.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Royal Harwood Frost ranks 7,740 out of 18,182. Before him are Ian Keith (1899), Jimmy McLane (1930), John David Washington (1984), Josephine Hutchinson (1903), Mary Brian (1906), and Charles Cyphers (1939). After him are Paul Pilgrim (1883), Michael Learned (1939), Cherie Currie (1959), George Amick (1924), Bob Menendez (1954), and John Bray (1875).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Royal Harwood Frost ranks 99. Before him are Stephen P. Synnott (1946), Benjamin Banneker (1731), Mary Watson Whitney (1847), David Todd Wilkinson (1935), Margaret Geller (1947), and Carolyn Porco (1953). After him are Edward S. Holden (1846), DeLisle Stewart (1870), Charles Augustus Young (1834), Grove Karl Gilbert (1843), John N. Bahcall (1934), and Irwin I. Shapiro (1929).

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