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Thomas Romney Robinson

1792 - 1882

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John Thomas Romney Robinson (23 April 1792 – 28 February 1882), usually referred to as Thomas Romney Robinson, was an Irish astronomer. He was the director of the Armagh Observatory, one of the chief astronomical observatories in the UK of its time. He is remembered as inventor of the 4-cup anemometer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Romney Robinson is the 298th most popular astronomer (up from 555th in 2019), the 141st most popular biography from Ireland (up from 312th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Irish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Thomas Romney Robinson ranks 298 out of 644. Before him are Richard Christopher Carrington, Hervé Faye, Grigory Neujmin, Eugene Parker, Frank Muller, and Mashallah ibn Athari. After him are David Gill, Maarten Schmidt, Iosif Shklovsky, Christine Kirch, Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi, and Philippe van Lansberge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Thomas Romney Robinson ranks 41. Before him are Andrés de Santa Cruz, Mangas Coloradas, Roderick Murchison, Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Nodira, and Jacques Ignace Hittorff. After him are Moritz Hauptmann, Lev Perovski, Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, José Joaquín de Herrera, Christian Gmelin, and Abraham Jacob van der Aa. Among people deceased in 1882, Thomas Romney Robinson ranks 48. Before him are Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, Georges Leclanché, John Scott Russell, Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann, Ferdinand Reich, and Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. After him are Friedrich von Lütke, Charles J. Guiteau, Carl Robert Jakobson, Giovanni Lanza, John William Draper, and Joseph Decaisne.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Thomas Romney Robinson ranks 141 out of 549. Before him are William Brown (1777), Anne de Mortimer (1390), Arthur Griffith (1871), Arthur Johnson (1879), Charles Villiers Stanford (1852), and Pat Cox (1952). After him are Patrick O'Connell (1887), Arthur Guinness (1725), Peter Brown (1935), Sally Oldfield (1947), Coloman of Stockerau (1000), and George Browne (1698).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Ireland

Among astronomers born in Ireland, Thomas Romney Robinson ranks 2. Before him are Andrew Graham (1815). After him are Edward Sabine (1788), Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848), Mary Proctor (1862), Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (1865), Agnes Mary Clerke (1842), and Mary Ward (1827).

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