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William Cranch Bond

1789 - 1859

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William Cranch Bond (September 9, 1789 – January 29, 1859) was an American astronomer, and the first director of Harvard College Observatory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Cranch Bond has received more than 39,482 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. William Cranch Bond is the 267th most popular astronomer (down from 247th in 2019), the 3,841st most popular biography from United States (down from 3,817th in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Astronomer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 39k

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  • 52.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year William Cranch Bond has had the most page views in the with 3,950 views, followed by Chinese (970), and Spanish (854). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Norwegian (Nynorsk) (66.91%), Basque (58.33%), and Breton (46.71%)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, William Cranch Bond ranks 267 out of 644Before him are Maria Clara Eimmart, Sherburne Wesley Burnham, Josep Comas i Solà, Otto Struve, Seth Carlo Chandler, and André-Louis Danjon. After him are Guido Bonatti, Jean-Louis Pons, Theodor von Oppolzer, Philippe van Lansberge, Niccolò Zucchi, and Freimut Börngen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, William Cranch Bond ranks 26Before him are George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, Silvio Pellico, and Gamzat-bek. After him are Friedrich Boie, Charles Rivière-Hérard, Auguste Couder, Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Henry Pottinger, and Carlos María de Alvear. Among people deceased in 1859, William Cranch Bond ranks 37Before him are Zygmunt Krasiński, Nana Sahib, Sergey Aksakov, Tatya Tope, Walter Hunt, and Princess Anna of Saxony. After him are Horace Mann, F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, John Walker, Stefan Bogoridi, Joseph Ludwig Raabe, and José de Madrazo y Agudo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Cranch Bond ranks 3,841 out of 20,380Before him are Jimmy Smith (1925), Chester Barnard (1886), Elizabeth Warren (1949), Stanley Schachter (1922), Randy Savage (1952), and Jeffrey Jones (1946). After him are Frank Zamboni (1901), Dusty Rhodes (1945), Jeff Fahey (1952), Brian Thompson (1959), Robert Rodriguez (1968), and George Washington Carver (1864).

Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, William Cranch Bond ranks 48Before him are Joel Hastings Metcalf (1866), Sandra Faber (1944), George Ellery Hale (1868), Catherine Wolfe Bruce (1816), Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906), and Seth Carlo Chandler (1846). After him are Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824), Halton Arp (1927), Allan Sandage (1926), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), Charles T. Kowal (1940), and Albert George Wilson (1918).