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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 128,865 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). William Lassell is the 51st most popular astronomer (up from 70th in 2019), the 530th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 774th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Astronomer.

Lassell is most famous for discovering the planet Uranus.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, William Lassell ranks 51 out of 644. Before him are Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Gerard Kuiper, Ferdinand Verbiest, Vera Rubin, Clyde Tombaugh, and Riccardo Giacconi. After him are Varāhamihira, Pierre Janssen, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, William Alfred Fowler, Max Wolf, and Johann Bayer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, William Lassell ranks 6. Before him are Honoré de Balzac, Alexander Pushkin, Oscar I of Sweden, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, and Mary Anning. After him are Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Karl Bryullov, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Fromental Halévy, and Anna Atkins. Among people deceased in 1880, William Lassell ranks 7. Before him are Gustave Flaubert, Jacques Offenbach, Maria Alexandrovna, George Eliot, Paul Broca, and Henryk Wieniawski. After him are Ned Kelly, Anselm Feuerbach, Michel Chasles, Emperor Norton, Bettino Ricasoli, and Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Lassell ranks 530 out of 8,785. Before him are Robert Edwards (1925), Mary Anning (1799), Gerard Butler (1969), Albert Finney (1936), Ronnie Wood (1947), and Stanley Baldwin (1867). After him are Eadweard Muybridge (1830), Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844), Tom Wilkinson (1948), Henry Every (1659), James Hutton (1726), and Henry, Duke of Cornwall (1511).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, William Lassell ranks 6. Before him are Edmond Halley (1656), Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943), Martin Ryle (1918), Arthur Eddington (1882), and Fred Hoyle (1915). After him are Antony Hewish (1924), John Flamsteed (1646), James Bradley (1693), Stephen Gray (1666), George Darwin (1845), and Adelard of Bath (1075).

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