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DeLisle Stewart

1870 - 1941

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DeLisle Stewart (March 16, 1870 – February 2, 1941) was an American astronomer. In 1896 he became a staff member of Harvard College Observatory, and from 1898 to 1901 he worked at that observatory's station at Arequipa, Peru, where he took the photographic plates that William Henry Pickering used to discover Saturn's moon Phoebe. He discovered many new nebulas in the sky's southern hemisphere. Later he worked at Cincinnati Observatory until 1910, and later founded the Cincinnati Astronomical Society. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. DeLisle Stewart is the 507th most popular astronomer (up from 509th in 2019), the 7,877th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,689th in 2019) and the 100th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among astronomers, DeLisle Stewart ranks 507 out of 644. Before him are Charlotte Moore Sitterly, Robert H. McNaught, Edwin Foster Coddington, Frederik Kaiser, William Henry Smyth, and Ruby Payne-Scott. After him are Giuseppe Asclepi, Miguel Itzigsohn, Julie Vinter Hansen, Ľudmila Pajdušáková, William Christie, and Warren De la Rue.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, DeLisle Stewart ranks 140. Before him are Ivan Perestiani, Hermann Harms, Sascha Schneider, Frank Norris, Julián Besteiro, and Edwin Foster Coddington. After him are Lloyd Hildebrand, Charles Homer Haskins, John Marin, Marcus Loew, Julius Körner, and James M. Cox. Among people deceased in 1941, DeLisle Stewart ranks 174. Before him are Eduardo Schaerer, Lucien Mérignac, Jakob Emanuel Lange, Dobri Hristov, José Leite de Vasconcelos, and Dmitry Lavrinenko. After him are Marcus Hurley, Masha Bruskina, Victorino Márquez Bustillos, Herbert Adamski, Noël Liétaer, and Fred Karno.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, DeLisle Stewart ranks 7,879 out of 20,380. Before him are Leonard Slatkin (1944), Wally Funk (1939), Ernie Terrell (1939), Stephen Sommers (1962), A Martinez (1948), and Walton Goggins (1971). After him are Landon Donovan (1982), Irving Jaffee (1906), Abel P. Upshur (1790), Bob Weinstein (1954), David R. Ellis (1952), and Jay Gould (1836).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, DeLisle Stewart ranks 100. Before him are Mary Watson Whitney (1847), Cleveland Abbe (1838), Forest Ray Moulton (1872), Margaret Harwood (1885), Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898), and Edwin Foster Coddington (1870). After him are Charles Augustus Young (1834), Royal Harwood Frost (1879), Grove Karl Gilbert (1843), Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905), Marc Aaronson (1950), and Anne Sewell Young (1871).

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