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Vesto Slipher

1875 - 1969

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Vesto Melvin Slipher (; November 11, 1875 – November 8, 1969) was an American astronomer who performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies. He was the first to discover that distant galaxies are redshifted, thus providing the first empirical basis for the expansion of the universe. He was also the first to relate these redshifts to velocity. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vesto Slipher is the 39th most popular astronomer (up from 248th in 2019), the 566th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,510th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among astronomers, Vesto Slipher ranks 39 out of 644. Before him are Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Johann Palisa, Johann Gottfried Galle, Sosigenes of Alexandria, William Lassell, and Robert Woodrow Wilson. After him are Johannes Hevelius, Asaph Hall, Johann Bayer, Clyde Tombaugh, Martin Ryle, and Wilhelm Schickard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Vesto Slipher ranks 20. Before him are Gerd von Rundstedt, Marie of Romania, Albert I of Belgium, Mikhail Kalinin, Henry Hallett Dale, and Jim Corbett. After him are Gilbert N. Lewis, John Buchan, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thomas Burke, and Fritz Kreisler. Among people deceased in 1969, Vesto Slipher ranks 27. Before him are Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Iskander Mirza, Brian Jones, Morihei Ueshiba, Jack Kerouac, and Robert Taylor. After him are Dominique Pire, Levi Eshkol, Otto Dix, Moïse Tshombe, Arthur Friedenreich, and Witold Gombrowicz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Vesto Slipher ranks 566 out of 20,380. Before him are Jesse James (1847), Elinor Ostrom (1933), Dan Brown (1964), Shirley Temple (1928), Harper Lee (1926), and Jodie Foster (1962). After him are Eugene O'Neill (1888), Robert Peary (1856), Jeff Bridges (1949), Lauren Bacall (1924), Rock Hudson (1925), and Charles Cooley (1864).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Vesto Slipher ranks 7. Before him are Edwin Hubble (1889), Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1941), Carl Sagan (1934), Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958), Charles Greeley Abbot (1872), and Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936). After him are Asaph Hall (1829), Clyde Tombaugh (1906), William Alfred Fowler (1911), Edward Emerson Barnard (1857), Vera Rubin (1928), and Russell Alan Hulse (1950).

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