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David C. Jewitt

1958 - Today

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David Clifford Jewitt (born 1958) is a British-American astronomer who studies the Solar System, especially its minor bodies. He is based at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is a Member of the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, the Director of the Institute for Planets and Exoplanets, Professor of Astronomy in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Professor of Astronomy in the Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences. He is best known for being the first person (along with Jane Luu) to discover a body beyond Pluto and Charon in the Kuiper belt. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David C. Jewitt is the 373rd most popular astronomer (up from 498th in 2019), the 2,989th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,233rd in 2019) and the 48th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, David C. Jewitt ranks 373 out of 644. Before him are Jing Fang, Johann von Lamont, Benjamin Jekhowsky, André Patry, Frank Watson Dyson, and Kidinnu. After him are Shi Shen, Robert Herman, Dirk Brouwer, Alenush Terian, Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, and Tadeáš Hájek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, David C. Jewitt ranks 172. Before him are Giovanni Galli, Vlado Goreski, Terry Fox, Tita, Rosa Mota, and Limahl. After him are Francisco Buyo, Abdul Kabir, Algirdas Butkevičius, Rachel Ticotin, Sheree J. Wilson, and Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David C. Jewitt ranks 2,990 out of 8,785. Before him are Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), Alexander Bain (1810), Richard Armitage (1971), Arthur Owen (1915), Anna Kingsford (1846), and Felicity Jones (1983). After him are Ruth Wilson (1982), Dora Boothby (1881), Jack Taylor (1930), James Nasmyth (1808), Matthew Vaughn (1971), and Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, David C. Jewitt ranks 48. Before him are Beatrice Tinsley (1941), James Challis (1803), James Glaisher (1809), Cyril Jackson (1903), Johann von Lamont (1805), and Frank Watson Dyson (1868). After him are Nathaniel Bliss (1700), Geoffrey Burbidge (1925), John Pond (1767), Harry Edwin Wood (1881), Mary Adela Blagg (1858), and Herbert Hall Turner (1861).

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