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Lewis Boss

1846 - 1912

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Lewis Boss (26 October 1846 – 5 October 1912) was an American astronomer. He served as the director of the Dudley Observatory in Schenectady, New York. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lewis Boss is the 366th most popular astronomer (down from 315th in 2019), the 5,279th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,530th in 2019) and the 68th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Lewis Boss ranks 366 out of 644. Before him are Maurice Loewy, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Paul Götz, Alvan Clark, Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, and Seth Carlo Chandler. After him are Jing Fang, Johann von Lamont, Benjamin Jekhowsky, André Patry, Frank Watson Dyson, and Kidinnu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Lewis Boss ranks 76. Before him are Ignaz Brüll, Charles Stewart Parnell, Giuseppe De Nittis, Vladimir Makovsky, Seth Carlo Chandler, and William Robertson Smith. After him are Anna Katharine Green, Anna Kingsford, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Sophie Menter, Hayranidil Kadın, and Friedrich Paulsen. Among people deceased in 1912, Lewis Boss ranks 86. Before him are Bernardino Caballero, Subh-i-Azal, Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, Ferdinand Zirkel, Siri von Essen, and Richard Norman Shaw. After him are Eduardo López de Romaña, Toyohara Chikanobu, Tony Robert-Fleury, Marc-Émile Ruchet, Jaroslav Vrchlický, and Voltairine de Cleyre.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lewis Boss ranks 5,279 out of 20,380. Before him are Jeanne Crain (1925), Joe Hahn (1977), Robert Byrne (1928), Mark Pellegrino (1965), Lois Smith (1930), and Valerie Perrine (1943). After him are Ed Koch (1924), Elizabeth Mitchell (1970), Joan Blondell (1906), Rosalind E. Krauss (1941), Katherine Anne Porter (1890), and Jeezy (1977).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Lewis Boss ranks 68. Before him are James L. Elliot (1943), Carl A. Wirtanen (1910), Stephen P. Synnott (1946), Albert George Wilson (1918), Alvan Clark (1804), and Seth Carlo Chandler (1846). After him are Robert Herman (1914), Brian Schmidt (1967), James Edward Keeler (1857), Margaret Geller (1947), Harold D. Babcock (1882), and James Gunn (1938).

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