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Carl Keenan Seyfert

1911 - 1960

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Carl Keenan Seyfert (February 11, 1911 – June 13, 1960) was an American astronomer. He is best known for his 1943 research paper on high-excitation line emission from the centers of some spiral galaxies, which are named Seyfert galaxies after him. Seyfert's Sextet, a group of galaxies, is also named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Keenan Seyfert is the 170th most popular astronomer (up from 364th in 2019), the 2,189th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,386th in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Carl Keenan Seyfert ranks 170 out of 644. Before him are James Ferguson, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, John Goodricke, Nicole-Reine Lepaute, Margaret Burbidge, and Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf. After him are Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, James Craig Watson, Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Robert Grant Aitken, Franz Xaver von Zach, and Guillaume Bigourdan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Carl Keenan Seyfert ranks 80. Before him are Nicholas Ray, Eduardo Frei Montalva, Sergey Sokolov, Mahalia Jackson, Hubert Humphrey, and Karl Silberbauer. After him are Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, Lina Heydrich, Lucille Ball, Aly Khan, Józef Cyrankiewicz, and Jussi Björling. Among people deceased in 1960, Carl Keenan Seyfert ranks 50. Before him are Beno Gutenberg, Mack Sennett, Jacques Becker, Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria, Norodom Suramarit, and Hashim al-Atassi. After him are Paul Abraham, Aly Khan, Vicki Baum, Jussi Björling, Yan Xishan, and Eddie Cochran.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carl Keenan Seyfert ranks 2,189 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert N. Bellah (1927), Alex Jones (1974), Jean M. Auel (1936), William Wallace Denslow (1856), Gore Vidal (1925), and Thornton Wilder (1897). After him are Barrington Moore Jr. (1913), Blase J. Cupich (1949), Henry Ford II (1917), Ving Rhames (1959), Theda Bara (1885), and Frank Wilczek (1951).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Carl Keenan Seyfert ranks 29. Before him are Frank Drake (1930), Maria Mitchell (1818), Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929), William Henry Pickering (1858), Eleanor F. Helin (1932), and Harlow Shapley (1885). After him are Robert Grant Aitken (1864), Henry Draper (1837), George Phillips Bond (1825), George William Hill (1838), Francis Preserved Leavenworth (1858), and Andrea M. Ghez (1965).

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