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Caroline Herschel

1750 - 1848

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Caroline Lucretia Herschel ( HUR-shəl, HAIR-shəl, German: [kaʁoˈliːnə ˈhɛʁʃl̩]; 16 March 1750 – 9 January 1848) was a German astronomer, whose most significant contributions to astronomy were the discoveries of several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, which bears her name. She was the younger sister of astronomer William Herschel, with whom she worked throughout her career. She was the first woman to receive a salary as a scientist and the first woman in England to hold a government position. She was also the first woman to publish scientific findings in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, to be awarded a Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1828), and to be named an honorary Member of the Royal Astronomical Society (1835, with Mary Somerville). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Caroline Herschel is the 23rd most popular astronomer (up from 29th in 2019), the 290th most popular biography from Germany (up from 378th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Astronomer.

Caroline Herschel was a German astronomer who discovered eight comets and two nebulae.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Caroline Herschel ranks 23 out of 644. Before her are Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, Ole Rømer, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., Carl Sagan, Avempace, and Aryabhata. After her are Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Charles Messier, Giuseppe Piazzi, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Roger Joseph Boscovich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1750, Caroline Herschel ranks 4. Before her are Antonio Salieri, Ali Pasha of Ioannina, and Letizia Ramolino. After her are Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria, Tipu Sultan, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Heshen, Francisco de Miranda, Adam Afzelius, and Murad Bey. Among people deceased in 1848, Caroline Herschel ranks 8. Before her are Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Emily Brontë, Christian VIII of Denmark, François-René de Chateaubriand, George Stephenson, and John Quincy Adams. After her are Bernard Bolzano, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, Vissarion Belinsky, María Isabella of Spain, Nicolas Oudinot, and Mohammad Shah Qajar.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Caroline Herschel ranks 290 out of 7,253. Before her are Ferdinand Tönnies (1855), Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629), Joachim Gauck (1940), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), Walther Bothe (1891), and Sepp Dietrich (1892). After her are Albrecht Kossel (1853), Albert, Duke of Prussia (1490), John of Austria (1547), Eduard Bernstein (1850), Ernst Ruska (1906), and Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Caroline Herschel ranks 4. Before her are Johannes Kepler (1571), Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758), and William Herschel (1738). After her are Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (1822), Johann Gottfried Galle (1812), Johann Bayer (1572), Wilhelm Schickard (1592), Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793), Walter Baade (1893), Johann Franz Encke (1791), and Max Wolf (1863).

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