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Piers Sellers

1955 - 2016

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Piers John Sellers (11 April 1955 – 23 December 2016) was a British-American meteorologist, NASA astronaut and Director of the Earth Science Division at NASA/GSFC. He was a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions. Sellers attended Cranbrook School, Cranbrook, Kent, United Kingdom, until 1973, and achieved a bachelor's degree in ecological science from the University of Edinburgh in 1976. In 1981 he gained a doctorate in biometeorology from the University of Leeds. In 2011, Sellers retired from the NASA Astronaut Corps. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Piers Sellers is the 232nd most popular astronaut (down from 224th in 2019), the 4,330th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,434th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Piers Sellers ranks 232 out of 556Before him are Frank De Winne, Salizhan Sharipov, Reinhard Furrer, John Casper, William B. Lenoir, and Yelena Kondakova. After him are Robert S. Kimbrough, Ivan Bella, Sergei Avdeyev, Barbara Morgan, Yuri Baturin, and James P. Bagian.

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Among people born in 1955, Piers Sellers ranks 365Before him are James Eckhouse, Zlatko Lagumdžija, Agathonas Iakovidis, K. Eric Drexler, Fang Fang, and Gjoko Hadžievski. After him are Joanne Chory, Michel Renquin, Andy Bechtolsheim, Elisa Ferreira, Howie Mandel, and Warren Jeffs. Among people deceased in 2016, Piers Sellers ranks 410Before him are Laurent Pokou, Whitney Smith, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Burt Kwouk, Tapio Mäkelä, and Kiichirō Furukawa. After him are Henning Christophersen, Siegbert Horn, Wim van der Voort, Gideon Toury, Paulo Emilio, and Engelbert Kraus.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Piers Sellers ranks 4,331 out of 8,785Before him are Mark Hughes (1963), Margery Kempe (1373), David Abulafia (1949), Richard Palmer-James (1947), Stephen Mangan (1968), and Rhys ap Gruffydd (1132). After him are Richard Knill Freeman (1840), Eric Brook (1907), Henry Cooper (1934), Michael Heseltine (1933), Cecilia Colledge (1920), and Stephen Barclay (1972).

Among ASTRONAUTS In United Kingdom

Among astronauts born in United Kingdom, Piers Sellers ranks 2Before him are Tim Peake (1972). After him are Michael Foale (1957), Helen Sharman (1963), Gregory H. Johnson (1962), and Nicholas Patrick (1964).