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William Lassell

1799 - 1880

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William Lassell (18 June 1799 – 5 October 1880) was an English merchant and astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Lassell has received more than 112,210 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). William Lassell is the 70th most popular astronomer (down from 52nd in 2019), the 774th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 593rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Astronomer.

Lassell is most famous for discovering the planet Uranus.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, William Lassell ranks 70 out of 531. Before him are Sosigenes of Alexandria, Gerard Kuiper, Riccardo Giacconi, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, George Darwin, and Albert Marth. After him are Victor Ambartsumian, Abu Hanifa Dinawari, Max Wolf, Russell Alan Hulse, Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, and Stephen Gray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, William Lassell ranks 9. Before him are Oscar I of Sweden, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Mary Anning, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, and Karl Bryullov. After him are Fromental Halévy, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Anna Atkins, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Rodolphe Töpffer, and Karl Adolph von Basedow. Among people deceased in 1880, William Lassell ranks 8. Before him are Jacques Offenbach, Maria Alexandrovna, George Eliot, Paul Broca, Henryk Wieniawski, and Emperor Norton. After him are Ned Kelly, Anselm Feuerbach, Michel Chasles, Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, John Sutter, and Oliver Winchester.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Lassell ranks 774 out of 7,765. Before him are Kenny Dalglish (1951), Charles Spurgeon (1834), Bryan Ferry (1945), James Gregory (1638), E. M. Forster (1879), and Charles Laughton (1899). After him are Henry Fielding (1707), John of Salisbury (1110), Frederick Fleet (1887), Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), James Macpherson (1736), and Thomas Tallis (1502).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, William Lassell ranks 9. Before him are Fred Hoyle (1915), Arthur Eddington (1882), James Bradley (1693), John Flamsteed (1646), Martin Ryle (1918), and George Darwin (1845). After him are Stephen Gray (1666), Antony Hewish (1924), William Huggins (1824), Mary Somerville (1780), George Biddell Airy (1801), and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900).

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