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Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin

1865 - 1939

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Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (6 February 1865 – 20 September 1939) was an astronomer of French and Huguenot descent who was born in Cushendun, County Antrim, Ireland. He was educated in England at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge. After a spell teaching at Lancing College he found permanent employment at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in 1891. He joined the Royal Astronomical Society in 1888 and was its president from 1929-1931. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin is the 463rd most popular astronomer (up from 489th in 2019), the 221st most popular biography from Ireland (up from 247th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Irish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin ranks 463 out of 644. Before him are Hisashi Kimura, Aristarkh Belopolsky, Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker, Frank Schlesinger, Kees de Jager, and Avi Loeb. After him are Joel Stebbins, Milorad B. Protić, Bohdan Paczyński, Audouin Dollfus, William Wilson Morgan, and Hugo Gyldén.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin ranks 132. Before him are Sakina Akhundzadeh, William Birdwood, Pierre Weiss, Charles Champaud, Mikhail Tskhakaya, and Louis Borno. After him are Johannes Thiele, Guido Castelnuovo, Otto Modersohn, Lionel Dunsterville, Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky, and Walter Leistikow. Among people deceased in 1939, Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin ranks 125. Before him are Muhammad Ali Bey al-Abid, Oton Iveković, Fausto dos Santos, Alexander Kanoldt, Frank Wild, and Bautista Saavedra. After him are Zane Grey, Boris Grigoriev, Sidney Howard, Kullervo Manner, Ford Sterling, and Georges Pitoëff.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin ranks 221 out of 549. Before him are Veronica Guerin (1958), George Moore (1852), Liam Cosgrave (1920), Tim Ahearne (1885), Becky Lynch (1987), and Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913). After him are Andrew Scott (1976), William Trevor (1928), Jane Wilde (1821), Sara Allgood (1879), John Bruton (1947), and John Boyne (1971).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Ireland

Among astronomers born in Ireland, Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin ranks 6. Before him are Andrew Graham (1815), Thomas Romney Robinson (1792), Edward Sabine (1788), Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848), and Mary Proctor (1862). After him are Agnes Mary Clerke (1842), and Mary Ward (1827).

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