Astronomer

Mary Watson Whitney

1847 - 1921

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Mary Watson Whitney

Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2024). Mary Watson Whitney is the 488th most popular astronomer (up from 577th in 2024), the 7,446th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,693rd in 2019) and the 94th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among Astronomers

Among astronomers, Mary Watson Whitney ranks 488 out of 644. Before her are Adam Riess, Patrick Moore, Lutz D. Schmadel, William de Wiveleslie Abney, Edward S. Holden, and Walter Frederick Gale. After her are Pelageya Shajn, Cleveland Abbe, Kaoru Ikeya, Guillermo Haro, Wilhelm Anderson, and Luciano Tesi.

Most Popular Astronomers in Wikipedia

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Adam Riess
1969 - Present
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 482
Patrick Moore
1923 - 2012
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 483
Lutz D. Schmadel
1942 - 2016
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 484
William de Wiveleslie Abney
1843 - 1920
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 485
Edward S. Holden
1846 - 1914
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 486
Walter Frederick Gale
1865 - 1945
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 487
Mary Watson Whitney
1847 - 1921
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 488
Pelageya Shajn
1894 - 1956
HPI: 55.84
Rank: 489
Cleveland Abbe
1838 - 1916
HPI: 55.84
Rank: 490
Kaoru Ikeya
1943 - Present
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 491
Guillermo Haro
1913 - 1988
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 492
Wilhelm Anderson
1880 - 1940
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 493
Luciano Tesi
1931 - Present
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 494

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Mary Watson Whitney ranks 89. Before her are Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, Giacomo Bresadola, Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Eliška Krásnohorská, Wilhelm Killing, and Otto Blehr. After her are Vilma Hugonnai, Emil Holub, Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird, Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Sarah Frances Whiting, and František Křižík. Among people deceased in 1921, Mary Watson Whitney ranks 112. Before her are William Robert Brooks, Lev Chernyi, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Ludwig Knorr, Julius von Hann, and Rafael Reyes. After her are Jean Aicard, Leo Königsberger, Léon Moreaux, Oswald Schmiedeberg, Ludwig Thoma, and Eduardo Acevedo Díaz.

Others Born in 1847

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Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson
COMPOSER
1847 - 1927
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 83
Giacomo Bresadola
BIOLOGIST
1847 - 1929
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 84
Carlo Alberto Castigliano
PHYSICIST
1847 - 1884
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 85
Eliška Krásnohorská
WRITER
1847 - 1926
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 86
Wilhelm Killing
MATHEMATICIAN
1847 - 1923
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 87
Otto Blehr
POLITICIAN
1847 - 1927
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 88
Mary Watson Whitney
ASTRONOMER
1847 - 1921
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 89
Vilma Hugonnai
PHYSICIAN
1847 - 1922
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 90
Emil Holub
PHYSICIAN
1847 - 1902
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 91
Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird
SOCCER PLAYER
1847 - 1923
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 92
Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev
MATHEMATICIAN
1847 - 1878
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 93
Sarah Frances Whiting
PHYSICIST
1847 - 1927
HPI: 54.82
Rank: 94
František Křižík
INVENTOR
1847 - 1941
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 95