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Joel Hastings Metcalf

1866 - 1925

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Joel Hastings Metcalf (January 4, 1866 – February 23, 1925) was an American astronomer, humanitarian and minister. Reverend Metcalf graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1892. He served as a Unitarian minister in Burlington, Vermont and in Taunton, Massachusetts, Winchester, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine. He discovered or co-discovered several comets, including 23P/Brorsen-Metcalf and 97P/Metcalf-Brewington, and also 41 asteroids during 1905–1914, as credited by the Minor Planet Center. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joel Hastings Metcalf is the 204th most popular astronomer (up from 255th in 2019), the 2,876th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,670th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Joel Hastings Metcalf ranks 204 out of 644. Before him are J. Allen Hynek, Ali Qushji, Nancy Roman, Félix Tisserand, Antonín Mrkos, and George Mary Searle. After him are Giovanni Battista Donati, Andrew Graham, Lyudmila Chernykh, Nevil Maskelyne, John Bevis, and Seth Barnes Nicholson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Joel Hastings Metcalf ranks 52. Before him are Ramon Casas, Emile Vandervelde, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, La Goulue, Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta, and Vasily Kalinnikov. After him are Johann Strauss III, Kazys Grinius, Elizabeth von Arnim, Gustav Cassel, Kazimierz Twardowski, and Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin. Among people deceased in 1925, Joel Hastings Metcalf ranks 62. Before him are René Viviani, Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, Khải Định, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, and Robert Koldewey. After him are Sidney Reilly, Aristide Bruant, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Myer Prinstein, Sheikh Said, and Anna Schäffer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joel Hastings Metcalf ranks 2,876 out of 20,380. Before him are Lloyd Austin (1953), Billy Dee Williams (1937), Ray Harryhausen (1920), Margaret Bourke-White (1904), Sonny Boy Williamson I (1914), and William A. Wheeler (1819). After him are Gene Vincent (1935), Gordon Scott (1926), Julia Ann (1969), Henry King (1886), John McTiernan (1951), and Harold Rainsford Stark (1880).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Joel Hastings Metcalf ranks 38. Before him are George Phillips Bond (1825), George William Hill (1838), Francis Preserved Leavenworth (1858), Andrea M. Ghez (1965), J. Allen Hynek (1910), and Nancy Roman (1925). After him are Seth Barnes Nicholson (1891), George Ellery Hale (1868), Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), William Wallace Campbell (1862), and Charles T. Kowal (1940).

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