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William Henry Smyth

1788 - 1865

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Admiral William Henry Smyth (21 January 1788 – 8 September 1865) was an English Royal Navy officer, hydrographer, astronomer and numismatist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Henry Smyth has received more than 77,008 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). William Henry Smyth is the 483rd most popular astronomer (down from 442nd in 2019), the 4,086th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,766th in 2019) and the 57th most popular British Astronomer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, William Henry Smyth ranks 483 out of 644. Before him are Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist, Audouin Dollfus, Carl A. Wirtanen, Arno Arthur Wachmann, Hiroki Kosai, and Barnaba Oriani. After him are Karl Ludwig Littrow, Louise du Pierry, Lipót Schulhof, Robert Julius Trumpler, Fernand Rigaux, and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, William Henry Smyth ranks 56. Before him are Mikhail Shchepkin, Adoniram Judson, Károly Kisfaludy, Edwin Atherstone, Hugh Clapperton, and Charles Robert Cockerell. After him are Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker, John Canfield Spencer, Prideaux John Selby, and Sarah Josepha Hale. Among people deceased in 1865, William Henry Smyth ranks 72. Before him are Manuel Isidoro Belzu, Isabella Beeton, Alphonse Henri d'Hautpoul, Miklós Jósika, Marie-Anne Libert, and José María Pérez de Urdininea. After him are A. P. Hill, Andrei Stackenschneider, Henry Wirz, Hugh Falconer, William J. Duane, and Charles Lock Eastlake.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Henry Smyth ranks 4,086 out of 8,785. Before him are Vivian Campbell (1962), Tina Charles (1954), Pybba of Mercia (570), Ali Smith (1962), Dan Stevens (1982), and Peter Firth (1953). After him are Tony Jay (1933), Richard Llewellyn (1906), John Martyn (1948), Kim Newman (1959), Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1674), and James D'Arcy (1975).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, William Henry Smyth ranks 57. Before him are Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880), William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843), William Frederick Denning (1848), Edward Pigott (1753), Geoffrey Burbidge (1925), and Mary Adela Blagg (1858). After him are Patrick Moore (1923), David C. Jewitt (1958), James Challis (1803), William Christie (1845), John Pond (1767), and Robert H. McNaught (1956).

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