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David Gill

1843 - 1914

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Sir David Gill (12 June 1843 – 24 January 1914) was a Scottish astronomer who is known for measuring astronomical distances, for astrophotography and geodesy. He spent much of his career in South Africa. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Gill is the 299th most popular astronomer (down from 212th in 2019), the 2,453rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,738th in 2019) and the 40th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, David Gill ranks 299 out of 644. Before him are Hervé Faye, Grigory Neujmin, Eugene Parker, Frank Muller, Mashallah ibn Athari, and Thomas Romney Robinson. After him are Maarten Schmidt, Iosif Shklovsky, Christine Kirch, Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi, Philippe van Lansberge, and Luigi Carnera.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, David Gill ranks 55. Before him are Adolf Mayer, Johannes Schmidt, Christina Nilsson, Friedrich Robert Helmert, Fyodor Stravinsky, and Karl Michael Ziehrer. After him are Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine, Kliment Timiryazev, Emily Warren Roebling, Émile Levassor, Ernest Mason Satow, and Kristian Zahrtmann. Among people deceased in 1914, David Gill ranks 66. Before him are Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, Giovanni Sgambati, Félix Bracquemond, Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen, Carl Chun, and Pierre Souvestre. After him are Adlai Stevenson I, Constantine V of Constantinople, Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg, Ellen Axson Wilson, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, and Charles Martin Hall.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Gill ranks 2,454 out of 8,785. Before him are Allan Holdsworth (1946), Ælfgifu of Northampton (990), Graham Nash (1942), Brian Robertson (1956), Lesley Manville (1956), and Richard Chancellor (1521). After him are Arthur Holmes (1890), John Cleland (1709), Gavin Rossdale (1965), Hugh Hudson (1936), Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928), and Sebastian Coe (1956).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, David Gill ranks 40. Before him are James Ferguson (1710), Edward Walter Maunder (1851), Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880), Harold Spencer Jones (1890), Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838), and Richard Christopher Carrington (1826). After him are John Machin (1680), Beatrice Tinsley (1941), James Challis (1803), James Glaisher (1809), Cyril Jackson (1903), and Johann von Lamont (1805).

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