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Daniel Kirkwood

1814 - 1895

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Daniel Kirkwood (September 27, 1814 – June 11, 1895) was an American astronomer. Kirkwood was born in Harford County, Maryland, to John and Agnes (née Hope) Kirkwood. He graduated in mathematics from the York County Academy in York, Pennsylvania, in 1838. After teaching there for five years, he became Principal of the Lancaster High School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and after another five years he moved on to become Principal of the Pottsville Academy in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Daniel Kirkwood is the 275th most popular astronomer (up from 340th in 2019), the 3,962nd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,873rd in 2019) and the 49th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among astronomers, Daniel Kirkwood ranks 275 out of 644. Before him are Edward Walter Maunder, Aleksander Wolszczan, Cleostratus, Gottfried Kirch, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, and Sandra Faber. After him are Antonia Maury, Marguerite Laugier, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, André-Louis Danjon, Geminiano Montanari, and Philibert Jacques Melotte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Daniel Kirkwood ranks 43. Before him are Charles Mackay, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies, Henri Tresca, Gustav Hartlaub, Bhanubhakta Acharya, and Jules Simon. After him are Miklós Ybl, John Hughes, Pierre Wantzel, Hervé Faye, Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and Auguste Clésinger. Among people deceased in 1895, Daniel Kirkwood ranks 45. Before him are Stefan Stambolov, Ding Ruchang, Mykhailo Drahomanov, Albert F. Mummery, Benjamin Godard, and Henri Ernest Baillon. After him are Władysław Podkowiński, Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia, Knud Knudsen, Lahiri Mahasaya, Tomoji Tanabe, and George Newbold Lawrence.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Daniel Kirkwood ranks 3,962 out of 20,380. Before him are Leslie Easterbrook (1949), Dean Jones (1931), Bert Patenaude (1909), Ciara (1985), Frank Parker (1916), and Jim Hines (1946). After him are Cathy O'Donnell (1923), Lassie Lou Ahern (1920), Robert James Waller (1939), James Gordon Bennett Jr. (1841), Robert Gordon (1947), and Kathryn D. Sullivan (1951).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Daniel Kirkwood ranks 49. Before him are William Wallace Campbell (1862), Charles T. Kowal (1940), William Cranch Bond (1789), Halton Arp (1927), Elizabeth Roemer (1929), and Sandra Faber (1944). After him are Antonia Maury (1866), Heber Doust Curtis (1872), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), James W. Christy (1938), Eugene Parker (1927), and Frank Muller (1862).

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