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William Christie

1845 - 1922

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Sir William Henry Mahoney Christie (1 October 1845 – 22 January 1922) was a British astronomer. He was born in Woolwich, London, the son of Samuel Hunter Christie and educated at King's College School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Christie has received more than 10,312 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. William Christie is the 390th most popular astronomer (down from 367th in 2019), the 3,315th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,999th in 2019) and the 48th most popular British Astronomer.

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  • 47.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, William Christie ranks 390 out of 531. Before him are Zdeňka Vávrová, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Gottfried Kirch, Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Ludwig Biermann, and Brian Schmidt. After him are Tsutomu Seki, Bart Bok, Geoffrey Burbidge, Jill Tarter, Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, and Mary Ward.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, William Christie ranks 78. Before him are André Bessette, Paul Deussen, Pier Andrea Saccardo, George Kennan, Sámuel Teleki, and Antonin Mercié. After him are Franz Ehrle, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Edward Douglass White, Lobengula, John Sparrow David Thompson, and Archibald Sayce. Among people deceased in 1922, William Christie ranks 95. Before him are Iwan Bloch, Jorge Montt, José de Amézola y Aspizúa, William Henry Hudson, Berthold Delbrück, and Axel Thue. After him are Ernest Lavisse, Petros Protopapadakis, Vilma Hugonnai, Lev Chugaev, Take Ionescu, and František Ondříček.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Christie ranks 3,315 out of 7,765. Before him are Tony Benn (1925), Jane March (1973), Nicholas Hoult (1989), Maureen Starkey Tigrett (1946), Guy Simonds (1903), and Christopher Priest (1943). After him are Claire Foy (1984), Jim Bellamy (1881), Sheena Easton (1959), Max Newman (1897), Dora Boothby (1881), and Vic Buckingham (1915).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, William Christie ranks 48. Before him are Cyril Jackson (1903), Brian G. Marsden (1937), Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880), Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838), Harry Edwin Wood (1881), and Harold Spencer Jones (1890). After him are Geoffrey Burbidge (1925), John Pond (1767), Herbert Hall Turner (1861), Ralph Copeland (1837), Edward Pigott (1753), and William Rutter Dawes (1799).

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