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Royal Harwood Frost

1879 - 1950

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Royal Harwood Frost (25 February 1879 – 11 May 1950) was an American astronomer, born in Salem, Massachusetts to Albinus Finney Frost and Emma Jane Richardson, the fourth son of a family of ten. He married Caroline Eliza Mayhew with whom he had three daughters (Caroline Frost, Martha Richardson Frost and Barbara Frost) and two sons (Royal Harwood Frost Jr. and William Mayhew Frost). Frost was an astronomical assistant at the Harvard College Observatory from 1896 to 1908, under the directorship of Edward Charles Pickering. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Royal Harwood Frost is the 524th most popular astronomer (down from 471st in 2019), the 8,271st most popular biography from United States (down from 7,679th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Royal Harwood Frost ranks 524 out of 644. Before him are Hiroshi Kaneda, Agnes Mary Clerke, Charles Augustus Young, John Broughton, Barnaba Oriani, and Yuji Hyakutake. After him are Grove Karl Gilbert, Helen Sawyer Hogg, Matvey Gusev, Marc Aaronson, Kiichirō Furukawa, and Anne Sewell Young.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Royal Harwood Frost ranks 217. Before him are Alexandros Othonaios, Alfrēds Kalniņš, Isidro Ayora, Otto Fickeisen, Rupert Julian, and Axel Nordlander. After him are Perikles Kakousis, Herman Teirlinck, Frank Kugler, Bagha Jatin, Gustav Goßler, and Waldemar Tietgens. Among people deceased in 1950, Royal Harwood Frost ranks 168. Before him are László Cseh, Semyon Frank, Alberto Ohaco, Peter Kemp, Oscar Osthoff, and Miguel Mariano Gómez. After him are Dirk Coster, Horace Rice, Luise Fleck, Rex Ingram, Boris Verlinsky, and Arthur L. Newton.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Royal Harwood Frost ranks 8,273 out of 20,380. Before him are Dack Rambo (1941), Dominic Sena (1949), Bill Maher (1956), Ignatius L. Donnelly (1831), Phil Zimmermann (1954), and Mary Barra (1961). After him are Greg Germann (1958), Kelly Curtis (1956), Peter Facinelli (1973), Joe Alaskey (1952), Titus O'Neil (1977), and Alexandra Paul (1963).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Royal Harwood Frost ranks 102. Before him are Forest Ray Moulton (1872), Margaret Harwood (1885), Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898), Edwin Foster Coddington (1870), DeLisle Stewart (1870), and Charles Augustus Young (1834). After him are Grove Karl Gilbert (1843), Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905), Marc Aaronson (1950), Anne Sewell Young (1871), David Todd Wilkinson (1935), and Benjamin Banneker (1731).

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