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John Russell Hind

1823 - 1895

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John Russell Hind FRS FRSE LLD (12 May 1823 – 23 December 1895) was an English astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Russell Hind is the 82nd most popular astronomer (up from 158th in 2019), the 742nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,335th in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, John Russell Hind ranks 82 out of 644. Before him are Pierre Janssen, Russell Alan Hulse, Wilhelm Tempel, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Antony Hewish, and Henrietta Swan Leavitt. After him are Percival Lowell, Arthur B. McDonald, Karl Ludwig Harding, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, George O. Abell, and Mariam al-Asturlabi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, John Russell Hind ranks 15. Before him are Leopold Kronecker, Édouard Lalo, Alexandre Cabanel, Li Hongzhang, Jean-Henri Fabre, and John Sherman. After him are Charles I of Württemberg, Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mackenzie Bowell, Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, Alexander Ostrovsky, and Charles III, Duke of Parma. Among people deceased in 1895, John Russell Hind ranks 15. Before him are Empress Myeongseong, Isma'il Pasha, Julius Lothar Meyer, Adam Opel, Julia, Princess of Battenberg, and Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet. After him are Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Charles Frederick Worth, Johann Josef Loschmidt, Nikolai Leskov, Friedrich Miescher, and Arthur Cayley.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Russell Hind ranks 742 out of 8,785. Before him are Lionel Robbins (1898), Henry Fielding (1707), Erasmus Darwin (1731), Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550), Robert Carlyle (1961), and Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355). After him are C. P. Snow (1905), Alfonso de Portago (1928), Hugh Despenser the younger (1287), Ben Jonson (1572), Jerome K. Jerome (1859), and William Kidd (1645).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, John Russell Hind ranks 12. Before him are Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900), John Michell (1724), James Bradley (1693), John Flamsteed (1646), Fred Hoyle (1915), and Antony Hewish (1924). After him are William Huggins (1824), Stephen Gray (1666), George Biddell Airy (1801), N. R. Pogson (1829), Mary Somerville (1780), and George Darwin (1845).

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