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Sandra Faber

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Sandra Moore Faber (born December 28, 1944) is an American astrophysicist known for her research on the evolution of galaxies. She is the University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and works at the Lick Observatory. She has made discoveries linking the brightness of galaxies to the speed of stars within them and was the co-discoverer of the Faber–Jackson relation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sandra Faber has received more than 130,468 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Sandra Faber is the 256th most popular astronomer (up from 351st in 2019), the 3,716th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,400th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 130k

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  • 53.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Sandra Faber ranks 256 out of 644. Before her are Svetlana Gerasimenko, Bengt Strömgren, Charles Wolf, Laurent Cassegrain, Klim Churyumov, and Joel Hastings Metcalf. After her are George Ellery Hale, Catherine Wolfe Bruce, Nevil Maskelyne, Fred Lawrence Whipple, Maria Clara Eimmart, and Sherburne Wesley Burnham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Sandra Faber ranks 286. Before her are Whitfield Diffie, Elmar Wepper, David Rasche, Oleksandr Moroz, Glen Cook, and Aleksandr Serebrov. After her are Boris Mikhailov, Jerry Springer, Pedro Barreto, Gladys Knight, Han Myeong-sook, and Vlastimil Hort.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sandra Faber ranks 3,716 out of 20,380. Before her are Richard E. Bellman (1920), Carlos Lopes (1947), Vince Gilligan (1967), Jon Krakauer (1954), Harris Yulin (1937), and Mancur Olson (1932). After her are Eddie Albert (1906), Crispin Glover (1964), Paul Gallico (1897), Kourtney Kardashian (1979), Tiffany Trump (1993), and Tracy Chapman (1964).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Sandra Faber ranks 43. Before her are Francis Preserved Leavenworth (1858), George William Hill (1838), Nancy Roman (1925), Vesto Slipher (1875), William Wallace Campbell (1862), and Joel Hastings Metcalf (1866). After her are George Ellery Hale (1868), Catherine Wolfe Bruce (1816), Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906), Seth Carlo Chandler (1846), William Cranch Bond (1789), and Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824).

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