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Mary Watson Whitney

1847 - 1921

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Mary Watson Whitney (September 11, 1847 – January 20, 1921) was an American astronomer and was the head of the Vassar College Observatory for 22 years, where 102 scientific papers were published under her guidance. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Watson Whitney is the 488th most popular astronomer (up from 577th in 2019), the 7,438th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,697th 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.

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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.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Watson Whitney ranks 7,440 out of 20,380. Before her are Ed Helms (1974), Jimmy Durante (1893), James Darren (1936), Bill Smitrovich (1947), Hassler Whitney (1907), and George Ord (1781). After her are Robert Durst (1943), Chris Wedge (1957), Joseph Sargent (1925), Bobby Jones (1902), William H. Crawford (1772), and Jeff Sessions (1946).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Mary Watson Whitney ranks 94. Before her are Joel Stebbins (1878), William Wilson Morgan (1906), Carolyn Porco (1953), David L. Rabinowitz (1960), Adam Riess (1969), and Edward S. Holden (1846). After her are Cleveland Abbe (1838), Forest Ray Moulton (1872), Margaret Harwood (1885), Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898), Edwin Foster Coddington (1870), and DeLisle Stewart (1870).

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