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Mary Proctor

1862 - 1957

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Mary Proctor (1 April 1862 – 11 September 1957) was a British-American popularizer of astronomy. While not a professional astronomer, Proctor became well known for her books and articles written for the public – particularly her children's fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Proctor is the 454th most popular astronomer (up from 539th in 2019), the 210th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 297th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Irish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Mary Proctor ranks 454 out of 644. Before her are Vladimir Kotelnikov, Joseph Helffrich, Holger Thiele, Fernand Courty, Hans-Emil Schuster, and Ernst Hartwig. After her are William Robert Brooks, Grigory Shajn, Hisashi Kimura, Aristarkh Belopolsky, Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker, and Frank Schlesinger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Mary Proctor ranks 122. Before her are Tomitaro Makino, Mirza Alakbar Sabir, Wilhelm Weinberg, Anastasios Metaxas, Fernand Courty, and Stanisław Narutowicz. After her are Hermann Gunkel, Hulda Garborg, Eugen Schmidt, Andrew Fisher, Moriz Rosenthal, and Wil van Gogh. Among people deceased in 1957, Mary Proctor ranks 166. Before her are Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Tomitaro Makino, Charles King, Maurice Peeters, Ernest Oppenheimer, and Robert Lowie. After her are Leopold Staff, John Svanberg, Martin Wagner, Harry Watson, Patrick Abercrombie, and Piero Carini.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Mary Proctor ranks 210 out of 549. Before her are Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833), William Orpen (1878), Paul Kane (1810), Richard Steele (1672), Richard Todd (1919), and Brendan Behan (1923). After her are Shelley McNamara (1952), Jason O'Mara (1972), Martin Sheridan (1881), Sinéad Cusack (1948), Veronica Guerin (1958), and George Moore (1852).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Ireland

Among astronomers born in Ireland, Mary Proctor ranks 5. Before her are Andrew Graham (1815), Thomas Romney Robinson (1792), Edward Sabine (1788), and Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848). After her are Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (1865), Agnes Mary Clerke (1842), and Mary Ward (1827).

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