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Edward L. G. Bowell

1943 - 2023

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Edward L. G. Bowell (1943 – August 21, 2023), was an American astronomer. Bowell was educated at Emanuel School London, University College, London, and the University of Paris. He was principal investigator of the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS). He has discovered a large number of asteroids, both as part of LONEOS and in his own right before LONEOS began. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward L. G. Bowell is the 231st most popular astronomer (down from 188th in 2019), the 1,939th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,562nd in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Edward L. G. Bowell ranks 231 out of 644. Before him are Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin, Horace Parnell Tuttle, Alexis Bouvard, William Wallace Campbell, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, and Thomas Gold. After him are Tamara Smirnova, Johannes Fabricius, Robert T. A. Innes, César-François Cassini de Thury, Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio, and Wilhelm Gliese.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Edward L. G. Bowell ranks 211. Before him are Ian Kershaw, Boris Gromov, Soad Hosny, Lucio Battisti, Nikolay Shmatko, and Nils-Aslak Valkeapää. After him are Albert Pintat, Nicholas Negroponte, Carmen Argenziano, Winston Groom, Henry Hill, and Eduardo Mendoza Garriga. Among people deceased in 2023, Edward L. G. Bowell ranks 143. Before him are Frederic Forrest, Ruth Fuchs, Martin Amis, Lubomír Štrougal, Albert Azaryan, and Adolf Scherer. After him are Ken Mattingly, Rita Lee, Henri Konan Bédié, Daisaku Ikeda, Daniel Ellsberg, and Earl Boen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward L. G. Bowell ranks 1,939 out of 8,785. Before him are David Douglas (1799), Princess Mary of Great Britain (1723), Thomas Wyatt (1503), Robert Filmer (1588), Samantha Fox (1966), and Colin Wilson (1931). After him are Michael Scot (1175), Ine of Wessex (700), Matthew Arnold (1822), Edward FitzGerald (1809), Rick Astley (1966), and William George Horner (1786).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Edward L. G. Bowell ranks 31. Before him are Margaret Burbidge (1919), Norman Lockyer (1836), George Mary Searle (1839), Nevil Maskelyne (1732), John Bevis (1695), and Francis Baily (1774). After him are Robert T. A. Innes (1861), Alfred Fowler (1868), James Ferguson (1710), Edward Walter Maunder (1851), Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880), and Harold Spencer Jones (1890).

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