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William Cranch Bond

1789 - 1859

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William Cranch Bond (September 9, 1789 – January 29, 1859) was an American astronomer, and the first director of Harvard College Observatory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Cranch Bond is the 251st most popular astronomer (up from 267th in 2019), the 3,549th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,841st in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, William Cranch Bond ranks 251 out of 644. Before him are Benjamin Baillaud, Charles T. Kowal, Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji, Margherita Hack, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, and James Ferguson. After him are Bertil Lindblad, Halton Arp, Wang Zhenyi, Maximilian Hell, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, and Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, William Cranch Bond ranks 23. Before him are Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, Marcellin Champagnat, Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg, Friedrich Boie, John Martin, and Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, Silvio Pellico, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, Henry Pottinger, and Manuel Gómez Pedraza. Among people deceased in 1859, William Cranch Bond ranks 36. Before him are Joseph Diez Gergonne, Yoshida Shōin, Alfred Vail, Zygmunt Krasiński, Karl Baedeker, and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore. After him are Sergey Aksakov, Thomas Horsfield, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Princess Anna of Saxony, and William H. Prescott.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Cranch Bond ranks 3,549 out of 20,380. Before him are Laurie Anderson (1947), Philip Sheridan (1831), Charles Napier (1936), Andrew Garfield (1983), Edward Weston (1886), and Thelma Ritter (1902). After him are Benny Golson (1929), Paul Robeson (1898), Rebbie Jackson (1950), Brooke Adams (1949), Halton Arp (1927), and Charlotte Cushman (1816).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, William Cranch Bond ranks 45. Before him are Seth Barnes Nicholson (1891), George Ellery Hale (1868), Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), William Wallace Campbell (1862), and Charles T. Kowal (1940). After him are Halton Arp (1927), Elizabeth Roemer (1929), Sandra Faber (1944), Daniel Kirkwood (1814), Antonia Maury (1866), and Heber Doust Curtis (1872).

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