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Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.

1941 - Today

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His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. is the 19th most popular astronomer (up from 89th in 2019), the 221st most popular biography from United States (up from 1,242nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Astronomer.

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. is most famous for being the first person to measure the speed of light accurately.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. ranks 19 out of 644. Before him are Ulugh Beg, Ja'far al-Sadiq, Edwin Hubble, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, and Ole Rømer. After him are Carl Sagan, Avempace, Aryabhata, Caroline Herschel, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, and Jocelyn Bell Burnell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. ranks 10. Before him are Bob Dylan, Slobodan Milošević, Alex Ferguson, Plácido Domingo, Sergio Mattarella, and Bernardo Bertolucci. After him are Cesária Évora, Riccardo Muti, Lee Myung-bak, Fethullah Gülen, Robert Forster, and Richard Dawkins.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. ranks 221 out of 20,380. Before him are Kevin Costner (1955), Amelia Earhart (1897), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), George Beadle (1903), Buster Keaton (1895), and Tom Cruise (1962). After him are Frank Lloyd Wright (1867), Cecil B. DeMille (1881), Grover Cleveland (1837), Milton Friedman (1912), Ray Bradbury (1920), and Humphrey Bogart (1899).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. ranks 2. Before him are Edwin Hubble (1889). After him are Carl Sagan (1934), Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958), Charles Greeley Abbot (1872), Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936), Vesto Slipher (1875), Asaph Hall (1829), Clyde Tombaugh (1906), William Alfred Fowler (1911), Edward Emerson Barnard (1857), and Vera Rubin (1928).

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