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Sandra Faber

1944 - Today

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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 122,933 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Sandra Faber is the 351st most popular astronomer (up from 387th in 2019), the 5,412th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,940th in 2019) and the 66th most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 120k

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  • 48.60

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Sandra Faber ranks 351 out of 531Before her are Vladimir Kotelnikov, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, Joseph Helffrich, Elia Millosevich, Hugo Gyldén, and David Rittenhouse. After her are Brian G. Marsden, George Van Biesbroeck, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Kees de Jager, Warren De la Rue, and Milorad B. Protić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Sandra Faber ranks 353Before her are S. Robson Walton, Daniel Duval, Yitzhak Mordechai, Michael Grätzel, Divina Galica, and Michel Maffesoli. After her are Élisabeth Roudinesco, Gene Clark, Pedro Barreto, Bo Larsson, Polycarp Pengo, and Roberto Miranda.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sandra Faber ranks 5,412 out of 18,182Before her are Johnny Hodges (1906), Hal Needham (1931), Edward Cook (1888), Darren Young (1983), Nathaniel Palmer (1799), and Ramsey Clark (1927). After her are Ellen Corby (1911), Buster Douglas (1960), Adam Brody (1979), Anna Lee Fisher (1949), Louis Brandeis (1856), and Robert Kerman (1947).

Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Sandra Faber ranks 66Before her are Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), Alvan Clark (1804), Frank Muller (1862), Eugene Parker (1927), Paul W. Merrill (1887), and David Rittenhouse (1732). After her are Catherine Wolfe Bruce (1816), Carl A. Wirtanen (1910), Forest Ray Moulton (1872), Frank Schlesinger (1871), Herbert Friedman (1916), and Frank Elmore Ross (1874).