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Charles Dillon Perrine

1867 - 1951

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Charles Dillon Perrine (July 28, 1867 – June 21, 1951) was an American astronomer at the Lick Observatory in California (1893-1909) who moved to Cordoba, Argentina to accept the position of Director of the Argentine National Observatory (1909-1936). The Cordoba Observatory under Perrine's direction made the first attempts to prove Einstein's theory of relativity by astronomical observation of the deflection of starlight near the Sun during the solar eclipse of October 10, 1912 in Cristina (Brazil), and the solar eclipse of August 21, 1914 at Feodosia, Crimea, Russian Empire. Rain in 1912 and clouds in 1914 prevented results. In 1897 he was awarded the Lalande Prize and gold medal by the Paris Academy of Sciences given each year ″to the person who makes the most outstanding observation ... Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Dillon Perrine is the 306th most popular astronomer (up from 344th in 2019), the 4,424th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,918th in 2019) and the 56th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Charles Dillon Perrine ranks 306 out of 644. Before him are Maarten Schmidt, Iosif Shklovsky, Christine Kirch, Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi, Philippe van Lansberge, and Luigi Carnera. After him are Guillaume Le Gentil, Agrippa, Benjamin Markarian, Charles Wolf, Hubert Reeves, and Guido Bonatti.

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Among people born in 1867, Charles Dillon Perrine ranks 90. Before him are Ali Kemal, Hjalmar Johansen, Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, Alexander Vasiliev, Hanns Hörbiger, and Aleksandar Malinov. After him are Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Giuseppe Morello, Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Léon Daudet, Yevgeny Miller, and Ivan Grohar. Among people deceased in 1951, Charles Dillon Perrine ranks 95. Before him are Louis Lavelle, Fumiko Hayashi, Henry Carton de Wiart, László Almásy, István Friedrich, and André Gobert. After him are Ernesto Ambrosini, Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, Abanindranath Tagore, John Paine, and Pedro Salinas.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Dillon Perrine ranks 4,424 out of 20,380. Before him are Philo Farnsworth (1906), Joe Pass (1929), Harry Nelson Pillsbury (1872), Jennifer Morrison (1979), Ernest B. Schoedsack (1893), and Richard Carpenter (1946). After him are Deke Slayton (1924), Gary Peters (1958), William Zabka (1965), Daron Malakian (1975), Harry Harlow (1905), and Robert Mulligan (1925).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Charles Dillon Perrine ranks 56. Before him are Antonia Maury (1866), Heber Doust Curtis (1872), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), James W. Christy (1938), Eugene Parker (1927), and Frank Muller (1862). After him are Michael H. Hart (1932), Frank Elmore Ross (1874), Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824), Milton L. Humason (1891), Allan Sandage (1926), and James L. Elliot (1943).

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