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Nancy Roman

1925 - 2018

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Nancy Grace Roman (May 16, 1925 – December 25, 2018) was an American astronomer who made important contributions to stellar classification and motions. The first female executive at NASA, Roman served as NASA's first Chief of Astronomy throughout the 1960s and 1970s, establishing her as one of the "visionary founders of the US civilian space program". Roman created NASA's space astronomy program and is known to many as the "Mother of Hubble" for her foundational role in planning the Hubble Space Telescope. Throughout her career, Roman was an active public speaker and educator, and an advocate for women in the sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nancy Roman is the 200th most popular astronomer (up from 230th in 2019), the 2,790th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,245th in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Nancy Roman ranks 200 out of 644. Before her are Francis Preserved Leavenworth, Maria Cunitz, Andrea M. Ghez, Andreas Cellarius, J. Allen Hynek, and Ali Qushji. After her are Félix Tisserand, Antonín Mrkos, George Mary Searle, Joel Hastings Metcalf, Giovanni Battista Donati, and Andrew Graham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Nancy Roman ranks 128. Before her are Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Antoine Gizenga, Lepa Radić, Luis Molowny, and François-Xavier Ortoli. After her are Robert Hardy, Michael Dummett, Pierre Bérégovoy, Gregorio Conrado Álvarez, Eva Klein, and Farley Granger. Among people deceased in 2018, Nancy Roman ranks 111. Before her are Ermanno Olmi, Big Van Vader, Margot Kidder, Belisario Betancur, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, and Raymond Chow. After her are Paul Virilio, Robert Faurisson, Jozef Adamec, Joseph Kobzon, Oliver Dragojević, and Luis García Meza.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nancy Roman ranks 2,790 out of 20,380. Before her are Dan Inosanto (1936), James Levine (1943), Benjamin Spock (1903), E. E. Cummings (1894), Gordon Cooper (1927), and Richard Bassett (1745). After her are Robert B. Wilson (1937), Brittany Murphy (1977), Tito Jackson (1953), Dexter Gordon (1923), Ellison Onizuka (1946), and Rex Tillerson (1952).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Nancy Roman ranks 37. Before her are Henry Draper (1837), George Phillips Bond (1825), George William Hill (1838), Francis Preserved Leavenworth (1858), Andrea M. Ghez (1965), and J. Allen Hynek (1910). After her are Joel Hastings Metcalf (1866), Seth Barnes Nicholson (1891), George Ellery Hale (1868), Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), and William Wallace Campbell (1862).

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