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Seth Barnes Nicholson

1891 - 1963

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Seth Barnes Nicholson (November 12, 1891 – July 2, 1963) was an American astronomer. He worked at the Lick observatory in California, and is known for discovering several moons of Jupiter in the 20th century. Nicholson was born in Springfield, Illinois, and was raised in rural Illinois. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Seth Barnes Nicholson has received more than 28,894 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Seth Barnes Nicholson is the 212th most popular astronomer (up from 217th in 2019), the 3,185th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,248th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Seth Barnes Nicholson ranks 212 out of 531. Before him are Guillaume Le Gentil, Edward L. G. Bowell, James W. Christy, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Timocharis, and Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann. After him are Sergey Belyavsky, Martin Schwarzschild, Alexis Bouvard, Oskar Backlund, Svetlana Gerasimenko, and Alfred Fowler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Seth Barnes Nicholson ranks 96. Before him are Maksim Bahdanovič, Ronald Colman, Boris Iofan, Jose P. Laurel, Henry Tandey, and Maria Skobtsova. After him are Damaskinos of Athens, Otto Ciliax, Ivan Vinogradov, Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia, Antoine Pinay, and R. Norris Williams. Among people deceased in 1963, Seth Barnes Nicholson ranks 76. Before him are Jacques Villon, Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Camille Chautemps, Alan Gardiner, Otto Struve, and Dinah Washington. After him are Robert Stroud, Ernst Marischka, Gustave Garrigou, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Luis Cernuda, and Elmore James.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Seth Barnes Nicholson ranks 3,185 out of 18,182. Before him are GG Allin (1956), Gordon Mitchell (1923), Neil Simon (1927), Paul Robeson (1898), Dick Wolf (1946), and Charles Joseph Bonaparte (1851). After him are Shannon Lee (1969), Leon Russom (1941), Richard Lester (1932), Jim Thompson (1906), Gregg L. Semenza (1956), and Joe Viterelli (1937).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Seth Barnes Nicholson ranks 38. Before him are William Henry Pickering (1858), Francis Preserved Leavenworth (1858), Robert Grant Aitken (1864), Joel Hastings Metcalf (1866), William Wallace Campbell (1862), and James W. Christy (1938). After him are Heber Doust Curtis (1872), Milton L. Humason (1891), George Ellery Hale (1868), Nancy Roman (1925), Eleanor F. Helin (1932), and Halton Arp (1927).

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