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Joel Stebbins

1878 - 1966

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Joel Stebbins (July 30, 1878 – March 16, 1966) was an American astronomer who pioneered photoelectric photometry in astronomy. He was director of the University of Illinois Observatory from 1903 to 1922 where he performed innovative work with the selenium cell. In 1922 he became director of the Washburn Observatory at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he remained until 1948. After 1948, Stebbins continued his research at Lick Observatory until his final retirement in 1958. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joel Stebbins is the 464th most popular astronomer (down from 428th in 2019), the 7,031st most popular biography from United States (down from 6,596th in 2019) and the 88th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among astronomers, Joel Stebbins ranks 464 out of 644. Before him are Aristarkh Belopolsky, Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker, Frank Schlesinger, Kees de Jager, Avi Loeb, and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin. After him are Milorad B. Protić, Bohdan Paczyński, Audouin Dollfus, William Wilson Morgan, Hugo Gyldén, and Hiroki Kosai.

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Among people born in 1878, Joel Stebbins ranks 192. Before him are Albert Nasse, Holger Thiele, Edwin Mills, Ladislav Klíma, Leopold Staff, and Dorothea Bate. After him are Harry Carey, Gustav Schuft, He Xiangning, Henry B. Walthall, Muriel Robb, and Ion Dragoumis. Among people deceased in 1966, Joel Stebbins ranks 161. Before him are Hilde Schrader, Sofya Yanovskaya, Pablo Birger, Erwin Komenda, Gösta Olson, and René Barbier. After him are Mississippi John Hurt, Paul Zielinski, Santiago Lovell, Elliot See, Josef von Báky, and Herbert Marshall.

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Among people born in United States, Joel Stebbins ranks 7,033 out of 20,380. Before him are Edgar Adams (1868), Christopher Judge (1964), Maura Healey (1971), Alf Clausen (1941), Robert T. Bakker (1945), and Eugene Burton Ely (1886). After him are Cecilia Beaux (1855), Donald Wuerl (1940), Sidney Coleman (1937), Zane Grey (1872), Miriam Stevenson (1933), and Lewis Powell (1844).

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