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Charles Augustus Young

1834 - 1908

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Charles Augustus Young (December 15, 1834 – January 4, 1908) one of the foremost solar spectroscopist astronomers in the United States. He observed solar eclipses and worked on spectroscopy of the Sun. He observed a solar flare with a spectroscope on 3 August 1872, and also noted that it coincided with a magnetic storm on Earth. Young graduated from Dartmouth College in 1853. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Augustus Young is the 520th most popular astronomer (up from 535th in 2019), the 8,169th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,636th in 2019) and the 101st most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Charles Augustus Young ranks 520 out of 644Before him are Alfred Bohrmann, Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist, William Rutter Dawes, Okuro Oikawa, Hiroshi Kaneda, and Agnes Mary Clerke. After him are John Broughton, Barnaba Oriani, Yuji Hyakutake, Royal Harwood Frost, Grove Karl Gilbert, and Helen Sawyer Hogg.

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Among people born in 1834, Charles Augustus Young ranks 89Before him are Yuriy Fedkovych, George du Maurier, Louis Ruchonnet, Aleksey Suvorin, José Eugenio Ellauri, and Édouard Pailleron. After him are Maurice Raynaud, Rafael Zaldívar, Manuel Pardo, Emil Stang, Thomas François Burgers, and Sabine Baring-Gould. Among people deceased in 1908, Charles Augustus Young ranks 95Before him are Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, John Evans, Walter Leistikow, Henry Clifton Sorby, Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević, and Marco Aurelio Soto. After him are José Manuel Marroquín, Carl Koldewey, Federico Chueca, Ignacio de Veintemilla, Joel Chandler Harris, and Ludwig Carl Christian Koch.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Augustus Young ranks 8,171 out of 20,380Before him are Hank Mann (1888), Anne Smith (1959), Joshua Bell (1967), Austin Butler (1991), Hal Connolly (1931), and Brenda Bakke (1963). After him are Marguerite Clayton (1891), Ina Claire (1893), Bill Condon (1955), Gayle Hunnicutt (1943), Dennis Frederiksen (1951), and Zoot Sims (1925).

Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Charles Augustus Young ranks 101Before him are Cleveland Abbe (1838), Forest Ray Moulton (1872), Margaret Harwood (1885), Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898), Edwin Foster Coddington (1870), and DeLisle Stewart (1870). After him are Royal Harwood Frost (1879), Grove Karl Gilbert (1843), Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905), Marc Aaronson (1950), Anne Sewell Young (1871), and David Todd Wilkinson (1935).