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Matvey Gusev

1826 - 1866

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Matvey Matveyevich Gusev (Russian: Матве́й Матве́евич Гу́сев) (November 28 [O.S. November 16] 1826, Vyatka, Russia–April 22 [O.S. April 10] 1866, Berlin, Germany) was a Russian astronomer who worked at Pulkovo Observatory near St. Petersburg from 1850 to 1852 and then at Vilnius Observatory. In 1860 he founded the first scientific journal dedicated to math and physics in Russia: Vestnik matematicheskikh nauk (Вестник математических наук). He became the director of the Vilnius Observatory in 1865. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Matvey Gusev is the 527th most popular astronomer (down from 502nd in 2019), the 1,990th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,133rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Russian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Matvey Gusev ranks 527 out of 644. Before him are John Broughton, Barnaba Oriani, Yuji Hyakutake, Royal Harwood Frost, Grove Karl Gilbert, and Helen Sawyer Hogg. After him are Marc Aaronson, Kiichirō Furukawa, Anne Sewell Young, György Kulin, David Todd Wilkinson, and Ewine van Dishoeck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Matvey Gusev ranks 60. Before him are Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Friedrich Chrysander, Joseph Victor von Scheffel, Henry Clifton Sorby, José María Medina, and Sereno Watson. After him are José Eusebio Otalora, Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl, Emily Blackwell, John Buford, Henry John Stephen Smith, and Dinah Craik. Among people deceased in 1866, Matvey Gusev ranks 49. Before him are John Ross, Louis Fraser, Joseph Weydemeyer, Henryk Rzewuski, Louis Meijer, and Thomas Love Peacock. After him are Lewis Cass, Manuel Felipe de Tovar, William Henry Harvey, John Keble, Robert F. Stockton, and Clement Comer Clay.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Matvey Gusev ranks 1,990 out of 3,761. Before him are Sergei Lemeshev (1902), Yevgeny Nesterenko (1938), Aleksandr Timoshinin (1948), Boris Lagutin (1938), Ivan Petrovsky (1901), and Pavel Lungin (1949). After him are Denis Menchov (1978), Afanasy Beloborodov (1903), Isaak Zelensky (1890), Sergei Slonimsky (1932), Avdotia Istomina (1799), and Vyacheslav Ivanov (1929).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Russia

Among astronomers born in Russia, Matvey Gusev ranks 14. Before him are Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (1935), Vera Gaze (1899), Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908), Aristarkh Belopolsky (1854), Lyudmila Karachkina (1948), and Pelageya Shajn (1894). After him are Karl Ludwig Littrow (1811), Lidiya Tseraskaya (1855), Pavel Shternberg (1865), and Alexander Voeikov (1842).

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