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Richard Christopher Carrington

1826 - 1875

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Richard Christopher Carrington (26 May 1826 – 27 November 1875) was an English astronomer whose 1859 astronomical observations demonstrated the existence of solar flares as well as suggesting their electrical influence upon the Earth and its aurorae; and whose 1863 records of sunspot observations revealed the differential rotation of the Sun. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Christopher Carrington is the 292nd most popular astronomer (up from 307th in 2019), the 2,425th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,480th in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among astronomers, Richard Christopher Carrington ranks 292 out of 644. Before him are Jean Fernel, Richard Martin West, Laurent Cassegrain, Giorgio Abetti, Sherburne Wesley Burnham, and Sylvain Arend. After him are Hervé Faye, Grigory Neujmin, Eugene Parker, Frank Muller, Mashallah ibn Athari, and Thomas Romney Robinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Richard Christopher Carrington ranks 36. Before him are Walter Bagehot, Gustave Moynier, Rahime Perestu Sultan, Frederic Edwin Church, Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, and Hormuzd Rassam. After him are Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, İbrahim Şinasi, Franz Grashof, Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, and Charles Barbier de Meynard. Among people deceased in 1875, Richard Christopher Carrington ranks 45. Before him are Henri Labrouste, Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain, Edgar Quinet, Marc Seguin, Eugène Schneider, and Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume. After him are Prosper Guéranger, Georg Herwegh, Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, Charles Kingsley, Charles Elliot, and Johann Karl Rodbertus.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Christopher Carrington ranks 2,425 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Bradwardine (1300), Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots (1404), William Hartnell (1908), Martin Brundle (1959), John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647), and Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883). After him are Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein (1867), Mary Bell (1957), Mark of Cornwall (480), Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563), Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham (1670), and Mick Box (1947).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Richard Christopher Carrington ranks 39. Before him are Alfred Fowler (1868), James Ferguson (1710), Edward Walter Maunder (1851), Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880), Harold Spencer Jones (1890), and Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838). After him are David Gill (1843), John Machin (1680), Beatrice Tinsley (1941), James Challis (1803), James Glaisher (1809), and Cyril Jackson (1903).

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