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Adelaide Ames

1900 - 1932

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Adelaide Ames (June 3, 1900 – June 26, 1932) was an American astronomer and research assistant at Harvard University. She was best known for her work on detailed surveys of the brightest extra-galactic spiral nebulae. She contributed to the study of galaxies with her co-authorship of A Survey of the External Galaxies Brighter Than the Thirteenth Magnitude, which was later known as the Shapley-Ames catalog. Ames was a member of the American Astronomical Society. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adelaide Ames is the 548th most popular astronomer (up from 580th in 2019), the 9,306th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,747th in 2019) and the 111th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Adelaide Ames ranks 548 out of 644. Before her are Karl Ludwig Littrow, Lidiya Tseraskaya, Vincenzo Cerulli, Pavel Shternberg, John N. Bahcall, and Louise du Pierry. After her are Adriaan van Maanen, Roy A. Tucker, Charles W. Juels, Thomas Brisbane, Madge Adam, and Irwin I. Shapiro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Adelaide Ames ranks 285. Before her are Carlos Hevia, Henri Cohen, Giuseppe Crivelli, Konrad Granström, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky, and William Haines. After her are Nikolaos Morakis, Marta Abba, Gaetano Martino, Gottfried Haberler, Nikolai Tomsky, and René Lorain. Among people deceased in 1932, Adelaide Ames ranks 139. Before her are Outram Bangs, Swarnakumari Devi, Carl Johnson, Malcolm Whitman, Ernest Mangnall, and Wovoka. After her are Charles Le Goffic, Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau, Leónidas Plaza, Virginie Hériot, Frank Dixon, and Donduk Kuular.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Adelaide Ames ranks 9,308 out of 20,380. Before her are Satchel Paige (1906), Marty Riessen (1941), Amiri Baraka (1934), Dean Cundey (1946), Tracy Austin (1962), and Clark Clifford (1906). After her are Madeleine L'Engle (1918), Sasha Mitchell (1967), Talia Balsam (1959), Lynn Collins (1977), Bill Moseley (1951), and King Kong Bundy (1955).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Adelaide Ames ranks 111. Before her are Marc Aaronson (1950), Anne Sewell Young (1871), David Todd Wilkinson (1935), Benjamin Banneker (1731), John Huchra (1948), and John N. Bahcall (1934). After her are Roy A. Tucker (1951), Charles W. Juels (1944), Irwin I. Shapiro (1929), Scott S. Sheppard (1977), Lawrence H. Aller (1913), and Thomas Bopp (1949).

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