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Harold Spencer Jones

1890 - 1960

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Sir Harold Spencer Jones KBE FRS FRSE PRAS (29 March 1890 – 3 November 1960) was an English astronomer. He became renowned as an authority on positional astronomy and served as the tenth Astronomer Royal for 23 years. Although born "Jones", his surname became "Spencer Jones". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harold Spencer Jones is the 284th most popular astronomer (up from 411th in 2019), the 2,368th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,376th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Harold Spencer Jones ranks 284 out of 644Before him are Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, André-Louis Danjon, Geminiano Montanari, Philibert Jacques Melotte, Heber Doust Curtis, and Raymond Smith Dugan. After him are James W. Christy, Jean Fernel, Richard Martin West, Laurent Cassegrain, Giorgio Abetti, and Sherburne Wesley Burnham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Harold Spencer Jones ranks 122Before him are Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Michał Rola-Żymierski, Jelly Roll Morton, Mustafa Shokay, André-Louis Danjon, and Adolf Wagner. After him are Maurice McLoughlin, Arthur Holmes, Helge Løvland, Rachel Bluwstein, Gösta Ekman, and Adolphe Menjou. Among people deceased in 1960, Harold Spencer Jones ranks 92Before him are Feroze Gandhi, Eric Temple Bell, Chris Bristow, Johnny Horton, Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, and Massimo Bontempelli. After him are Alan Stacey, Józef Haller, Cedric Gibbons, Richard Wright, Sigurd Hoel, and H. C. Hansen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Harold Spencer Jones ranks 2,368 out of 8,785Before him are Reg Park (1928), Brian Bennett (1940), Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1901), Dudley Moore (1935), Princess Eugenie of York (1990), and William T. Stearn (1911). After him are Andrew Bertie (1929), Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (1640), Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810), Henry Irving (1838), Frederick Copleston (1907), and Richard Lydekker (1849).

Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Harold Spencer Jones ranks 37Before him are Edward L. G. Bowell (1943), Robert T. A. Innes (1861), Alfred Fowler (1868), James Ferguson (1710), Edward Walter Maunder (1851), and Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880). After him are Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838), Richard Christopher Carrington (1826), David Gill (1843), John Machin (1680), Beatrice Tinsley (1941), and James Challis (1803).