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James Craig Watson

1838 - 1880

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James Craig Watson (January 28, 1838 – November 23, 1880) was a Canadian-American astronomer, discoverer of comets and minor planets, director of the University of Michigan's Detroit Observatory in Ann Arbor, and awarded with the Lalande Prize in 1869. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Craig Watson is the 172nd most popular astronomer (up from 213th in 2019), the 99th most popular biography from Canada (up from 140th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, James Craig Watson ranks 172 out of 644. Before him are John Goodricke, Nicole-Reine Lepaute, Margaret Burbidge, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Carl Keenan Seyfert, and Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi. After him are Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Robert Grant Aitken, Franz Xaver von Zach, Guillaume Bigourdan, Nikolai Chernykh, and Jean Picard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, James Craig Watson ranks 29. Before him are Yamagata Aritomo, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Prince Louis, Count of Trani, 11th Dalai Lama, and Konstanty Kalinowski. After him are Marià Fortuny, Ōkuma Shigenobu, William Henry Perkin, Fredrik Idestam, Jean-Paul Laurens, and Jules Brunet. Among people deceased in 1880, James Craig Watson ranks 12. Before him are George Eliot, Paul Broca, Emperor Norton, Michel Chasles, Ned Kelly, and Anselm Feuerbach. After him are Nell Arthur, Léon Cogniet, Bettino Ricasoli, Ole Bull, Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger, and Sara Forbes Bonetta.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, James Craig Watson ranks 99 out of 1,622. Before him are Victor Garber (1949), Jacques Villeneuve (1971), Maurice Richard (1921), Gordie Howe (1928), Shannon Tweed (1957), and Lois Maxwell (1927). After him are Mike Myers (1963), Denis Villeneuve (1967), G. A. Cohen (1941), Louis Slotin (1910), Carrie-Anne Moss (1967), and James Randi (1928).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Canada

Among astronomers born in Canada, James Craig Watson ranks 2. Before him are Arthur B. McDonald (1943). After him are Hubert Reeves (1932), David H. Levy (1948), Carlyle S. Beals (1899), John Stanley Plaskett (1865), Wendy Freedman (1957), Brett J. Gladman (1966), Sara Seager (1971), Dale Frail (1961), and Linda A. Morabito (1953).

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