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Frank Elmore Ross

1874 - 1960

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Frank Elmore Ross (April 2, 1874 – September 21, 1960) was an American astronomer and physicist. He was born in San Francisco, California and died in Altadena, California. In 1901 he received his doctorate from the University of California. In 1905 he became director of the International Latitude Observatory station at Gaithersburg, Maryland. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frank Elmore Ross is the 314th most popular astronomer (up from 405th in 2019), the 4,555th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,211th in 2019) and the 58th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Frank Elmore Ross ranks 314 out of 644. Before him are Agrippa, Benjamin Markarian, Charles Wolf, Hubert Reeves, Guido Bonatti, and Michael H. Hart. After him are Hendrik van Gent, Karl Christian Bruhns, Michael van Langren, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Milton L. Humason, and Niccolò Zucchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Frank Elmore Ross ranks 117. Before him are Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, Jirō Minami, Laura Montoya, Bahaeddin Şakir, Fernand Bouisson, and Francis Lane. After him are William Foulke, Ernest Duchesne, Dimitrios Golemis, Alfred Tysoe, Ioannis Mitropoulos, and Eugen Fischer. Among people deceased in 1960, Frank Elmore Ross ranks 104. Before him are H. C. Hansen, Leo Spitzer, Otto Ender, Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Adone Zoli. After him are Roy Chapman Andrews, Erich Neumann, Zora Neale Hurston, Pavel Peter Gojdič, Maud Menten, and Eduard Pütsep.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Elmore Ross ranks 4,555 out of 20,380. Before him are Oliver Macdonald (1904), Ruggiero Ricci (1918), Crawford Long (1815), Tommy Aldridge (1950), Bruno Kirby (1949), and Bix Beiderbecke (1903). After him are Harry Hillman (1881), Dick Button (1929), Kelly Johnson (1910), George Crumb (1929), Clarence Clemons (1942), and Frederick Jackson Turner (1861).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Frank Elmore Ross ranks 58. Before him are Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), James W. Christy (1938), Eugene Parker (1927), Frank Muller (1862), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), and Michael H. Hart (1932). After him are Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824), Milton L. Humason (1891), Allan Sandage (1926), James L. Elliot (1943), Carl A. Wirtanen (1910), and Stephen P. Synnott (1946).

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