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Madge Adam

1912 - 2001

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Madge Gertrude Adam (6 March 1912 – 25 August 2001) was an English solar astronomer who was the first postgraduate student in solar physics at the University of Oxford observatory. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Madge Adam is the 553rd most popular astronomer (up from 581st in 2019), the 4,720th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,638th in 2019) and the 66th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Madge Adam ranks 553 out of 644. Before her are Louise du Pierry, Adelaide Ames, Adriaan van Maanen, Roy A. Tucker, Charles W. Juels, and Thomas Brisbane. After her are Irwin I. Shapiro, Seiji Ueda, Tomimaru Okuni, Takao Kobayashi, Scott S. Sheppard, and Kazimierz Kordylewski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Madge Adam ranks 356. Before her are Dorothy Brookshaw, Helmut Hamann, Erwin Bauer, Erwin Strittmatter, George Mikes, and Irena Kwiatkowska. After her are Hércules de Miranda, Masao Harada, Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz, Kenneth Lee Pike, Friedrich Maurer, and Harry Klinefelter. Among people deceased in 2001, Madge Adam ranks 288. Before her are Leonid Ostrovski, Richard Evans Schultes, Stepas Butautas, Otto Hemele, Javed Iqbal, and Olle Håkansson. After her are Josef Peters, Rufus Thomas, Margaret Scriven, Otto Stuppacher, Fritz Fromm, and Andreas Kupfer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Madge Adam ranks 4,721 out of 8,785. Before her are Humphrey Carpenter (1946), Dru Drury (1725), Thomas Brisbane (1773), Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902), Christian Coulson (1978), and Lancelot Hogben (1895). After her are Anne McLaren (1927), Thomas Clarkson (1760), Harry Stafford (1869), Roma Ryan (1950), Owain Gwynedd (1100), and Bryn Terfel (1965).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Madge Adam ranks 66. Before her are William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843), Robert H. McNaught (1956), William Henry Smyth (1788), William Christie (1845), William Rutter Dawes (1799), and Thomas Brisbane (1773). After her are Richard A. Proctor (1837), Andrew Ainslie Common (1841), Arnold Wolfendale (1927), Richard van der Riet Woolley (1906), and James Gall (1808).

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