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N. R. Pogson

1829 - 1891

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Norman Robert Pogson, CIE (23 March 1829 – 23 June 1891) was an English astronomer who worked in India at the Madras observatory. He discovered several minor planets and made observations on comets. He introduced a mathematical scale of stellar magnitudes with the ratio of two successive magnitudes being the fifth root of one hundred (~2.512) and referred to as Pogson's ratio. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. N. R. Pogson is the 122nd most popular astronomer (up from 185th in 2019), the 1,043rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,557th in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, N. R. Pogson ranks 122 out of 644. Before him are Maria Margaretha Kirch, Heinrich Schwabe, Yrjö Väisälä, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, George Biddell Airy, and Frank Drake. After him are Ernst Öpik, Maria Mitchell, Girolamo Fracastoro, Hermann Goldschmidt, Svetlana Gerasimenko, and E. M. Antoniadi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, N. R. Pogson ranks 13. Before him are Chester A. Arthur, Asaph Hall, John Everett Millais, Philip Sclater, Theodor Billroth, and Alfred Brehm. After him are Adolf Eugen Fick, Anselm Feuerbach, Elizabeth Siddal, Ranavalona II, William Booth, and John of Kronstadt. Among people deceased in 1891, N. R. Pogson ranks 28. Before him are Carl Nägeli, Charles I of Württemberg, Albert Pike, Jan Neruda, Édouard Lucas, and Georges Ernest Boulanger. After him are Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Theophil Hansen, Joseph Petzval, Ernest Meissonier, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Princess Cecilie of Baden.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, N. R. Pogson ranks 1,043 out of 8,785. Before him are Leonard Hobhouse (1864), Alan Parsons (1948), David Lodge (1935), Charlotte Cooper (1870), William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810), and Keith O'Brien (1938). After him are Duncan I of Scotland (1001), John Cale (1942), Dennis W. Sciama (1926), William Webb Ellis (1806), Ninian (360), and Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, N. R. Pogson ranks 16. Before him are Fred Hoyle (1915), Antony Hewish (1924), John Russell Hind (1823), William Huggins (1824), Stephen Gray (1666), and George Biddell Airy (1801). After him are Mary Somerville (1780), George Darwin (1845), Williamina Fleming (1857), Adelard of Bath (1075), James Dunlop (1793), and Jeremiah Horrocks (1618).

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