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Walter Sydney Adams

1876 - 1956

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Walter Sydney Adams (December 20, 1876 – May 11, 1956) was an American astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Sydney Adams has received more than 44,707 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Walter Sydney Adams is the 116th most popular astronomer (up from 132nd in 2019), the 394th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 531st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Turkish Astronomer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Walter Sydney Adams ranks 116 out of 644. Before him are Karl Ludwig Harding, William Huggins, Édouard Stephan, Mary Somerville, Edward Charles Pickering, and John Louis Emil Dreyer. After him are Heinrich Schwabe, Frank Drake, Ernst Öpik, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Cleveland Abbe, and Eric Walter Elst.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Walter Sydney Adams ranks 42. Before him are Jean Webster, Rodolphe Seeldrayers, Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Ivan Cankar, and Robert Michels. After him are Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, Ziya Gökalp, Ivan Bilibin, Fevzi Çakmak, and Tomáš Baťa. Among people deceased in 1956, Walter Sydney Adams ranks 46. Before him are Mistinguett, Alfredo Ferrari, Alben W. Barkley, Mahmud Barzanji, Gustave Charpentier, and Gianpiero Combi. After him are Art Tatum, Lyonel Feininger, Savielly Tartakower, Erich Kleiber, Hiram Bingham III, and Infante Alfonso of Spain.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Walter Sydney Adams ranks 394 out of 1,347. Before him are Nicholas Mystikos (852), Eunapius (349), Sezen Aksu (1954), Artemidorus (200), Halit Ergenç (1970), and Yılmaz Güney (1937). After him are Callinus (-680), Muzafer Sherif (1906), Ignatios of Constantinople (797), Markos Vafeiadis (1906), Sultan Kösen (1982), and George Akropolites (1217).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Türkiye

Among astronomers born in Türkiye, Walter Sydney Adams ranks 2. Before him are Hipparchus (-190). After him are E. M. Antoniadi (1870), Cleomedes (110), Cleostratus (-520), Janet Akyüz Mattei (1943), Paris Pişmiş (1911), and Dilhan Eryurt (1926).

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