The Most Famous
BIOLOGISTS from Greece
This page contains a list of the greatest Greek Biologists. The pantheon dataset contains 1,097 Biologists, 1 of which were born in Greece. This makes Greece the birth place of the 58th most number of Biologists behind Kazakhstan, and Indonesia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Greek Biologists of all time. This list of famous Greek Biologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. William Murrill (1869 - 1957)
With an HPI of 51.95, William Murrill is the most famous Greek Biologist. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
William Alphonso Murrill (October 13, 1869 – December 25, 1957) was an American mycologist, known for his contributions to the knowledge of the Agaricales and Polyporaceae. In 1904, he became the assistant Curator at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). He, along with the NYBG, founded the journal Mycologia and was its first editor for 16 years. Murrill was known to travel extensively to describe the mycota of Europe and the Americas. He traveled along the East Coast, Pacific Coast, Mexico and the Caribbean. Although Murrill was a very influential person at the NYBG, having worked his way up to become assistant director in 1908, his rather eccentric personality caused problems with his job. He went on annual collecting trips to Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe, and South America, sometimes, without informing any of his colleagues prior. These trips resulted in a cumulative total of 70,000 specimens, 1,400 of which are deposited in the NYBG. Murrill might have issued an exsiccata series under the title Polyporaceae of North America.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Greek biologists born between 1869 and 1869. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Greek biologists include William Murrill.