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Robert T. A. Innes

1861 - 1933

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Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes FRSE FRAS (10 November 1861 – 13 March 1933) was a British-born South African astronomer best known for discovering Proxima Centauri in 1915, and numerous binary stars. He was also the first astronomer to have seen the Great January Comet of 1910, on 12 January. He was the founding director of a meteorological observatory in Johannesburg, which was later converted to an astronomical observatory and renamed to Union Observatory. He was the first Union Astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert T. A. Innes is the 234th most popular astronomer (up from 299th in 2019), the 1,959th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,440th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Robert T. A. Innes ranks 234 out of 644. Before him are William Wallace Campbell, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, Thomas Gold, Edward L. G. Bowell, Tamara Smirnova, and Johannes Fabricius. After him are César-François Cassini de Thury, Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio, Wilhelm Gliese, Paul Wild, Rudolf Wolf, and Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent.

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Among people born in 1861, Robert T. A. Innes ranks 58. Before him are Alexey Kaledin, John William Godward, William C. Durant, William Renshaw, Konstantin Korovin, and Thomas Heath. After him are Constantin Prezan, Ludwig Thuille, Spyridon Samaras, Meir Dizengoff, Henri Mathias Berthelot, and Elin Danielson-Gambogi. Among people deceased in 1933, Robert T. A. Innes ranks 55. Before him are Nitobe Inazō, Haim Arlosoroff, Hermann von François, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Hasan Prishtina, and Theodor Lessing. After him are Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, Giovanni Giacometti, Henry van Dyke Jr., Alexander von Krobatin, and Oskari Friman.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert T. A. Innes ranks 1,959 out of 8,785. Before him are Alf Ramsey (1920), Paul Bettany (1971), Thomas Tew (1649), Thom Yorke (1968), Gary Brooker (1945), and Dan McCafferty (1946). After him are Ralph Richardson (1902), Richard Parkes Bonington (1801), Tobias Smollett (1721), Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin (1914), John Maynard Smith (1920), and Samuel Frederick Gray (1766).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Robert T. A. Innes ranks 32. Before him are Norman Lockyer (1836), George Mary Searle (1839), Nevil Maskelyne (1732), John Bevis (1695), Francis Baily (1774), and Edward L. G. Bowell (1943). After 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).

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