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Horace W. Babcock

1912 - 2003

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Horace Welcome Babcock (September 13, 1912 – August 29, 2003) was an American astronomer. He was the son of Harold D. Babcock. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Horace W. Babcock is the 435th most popular astronomer (up from 449th in 2019), the 6,427th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,899th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Horace W. Babcock ranks 435 out of 644. Before him are George Henry Peters, Jane Luu, Henry L. Giclas, Herbert Hall Turner, Cuno Hoffmeister, and Adrien Auzout. After him are Erika Böhm-Vitense, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Otto August Rosenberger, Robert Julius Trumpler, Ralph Copeland, and Nicolas Fatio de Duillier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Horace W. Babcock ranks 251. Before him are Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Renato Rascel, Hamengkubuwono IX, Kulyash Baiseitova, Carmen Barth, and Peter Walker. After him are Glenn Morris, Maurice Guigue, Jan Brzák-Felix, Silviu Bindea, František Šterc, and Melita Norwood. Among people deceased in 2003, Horace W. Babcock ranks 218. Before him are Lewis A. Coser, Hal Clement, Roy Jenkins, Joel Antônio Martins, Hugh Trevor-Roper, and Tranquilo Cappozzo. After him are Garrett Hardin, German Apukhtin, Emília Rotter, Alfredo Hernández, Yuriy Voynov, and Wolfgang Peters.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Horace W. Babcock ranks 6,428 out of 20,380. Before him are Wes Bentley (1978), Don McNeill (1918), Al Ernest Garcia (1887), Richard Powers (1957), Chief Joseph (1840), and Eva Cassidy (1963). After him are Mary McLeod Bethune (1875), Louis Brandeis (1856), Eric Heiden (1958), Donald Byrd (1932), Mark Tobey (1890), and Edward Douglass White (1845).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Horace W. Babcock ranks 83. Before him are Dorothea Klumpke (1861), Jill Tarter (1944), Michael E. Brown (1965), George Herbig (1920), Herbert Friedman (1916), and Henry L. Giclas (1910). After him are Catherine Wolfe Bruce (1816), Schelte J. Bus (1956), Paul W. Merrill (1887), Frank Schlesinger (1871), Joel Stebbins (1878), and William Wilson Morgan (1906).

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