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Maria Mitchell

1818 - 1889

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Maria Mitchell ( mə-RY-ə; August 1, 1818 – June 28, 1889) was an American astronomer, librarian, naturalist, and educator. In 1847, she discovered a comet named 1847 VI (modern designation C/1847 T1) that was later known as "Miss Mitchell's Comet" in her honor. She won a gold medal prize for her discovery, which was presented to her by King Christian VIII of Denmark in 1848. Mitchell was the first internationally known woman to work as both a professional astronomer and a professor of astronomy after accepting a position at Vassar College in 1865. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maria Mitchell is the 124th most popular astronomer (up from 125th in 2019), the 1,633rd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,685th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Maria Mitchell ranks 124 out of 644. Before her are Yrjö Väisälä, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, George Biddell Airy, Frank Drake, N. R. Pogson, and Ernst Öpik. After her are Girolamo Fracastoro, Hermann Goldschmidt, Svetlana Gerasimenko, E. M. Antoniadi, Didier Queloz, and Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani.

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Among people born in 1818, Maria Mitchell ranks 23. Before her are Angelo Secchi, Leconte de Lisle, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, Charles III, Prince of Monaco, Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria, and Alexander Bain. After her are Zachris Topelius, François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville, Benjamin Butler, Thomas Mayne Reid, Amalia of Oldenburg, and Frederick Douglass. Among people deceased in 1889, Maria Mitchell ranks 19. Before her are Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Wilhelm Tempel, Princess Eugénie of Sweden, Wilkie Collins, Charles III, Prince of Monaco, and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. After her are Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Marie of Prussia, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Robert Browning, Giovanni Bottesini, and Jules Dupré.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Maria Mitchell ranks 1,633 out of 20,380. Before her are David Caruso (1956), Kelly McGillis (1957), Robert Fogel (1926), Dick Fosbury (1947), Dudley R. Herschbach (1932), and Bessie Smith (1894). After her are Jean Webster (1876), John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), Barry Levinson (1942), W. Edwards Deming (1900), Lyonel Feininger (1871), and Dave Brubeck (1920).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Maria Mitchell ranks 24. Before her are Henry Norris Russell (1877), Edward Charles Pickering (1846), Lewis A. Swift (1820), Annie Jump Cannon (1863), James Van Allen (1914), and Frank Drake (1930). After her are Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929), William Henry Pickering (1858), Eleanor F. Helin (1932), Harlow Shapley (1885), Carl Keenan Seyfert (1911), and Robert Grant Aitken (1864).

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