The Most Famous
BIOLOGISTS from Isle of Man
This page contains a list of the greatest Biologists. The pantheon dataset contains 1,097 Biologists, 1 of which were born in Isle of Man. This makes Isle of Man the birth place of the 52nd most number of Biologists behind Réunion, and Peru.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Biologists of all time. This list of famous Biologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Edward Forbes (1815 - 1854)
With an HPI of 50.62, Edward Forbes is the most famous Biologist. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Edward Forbes FRS, FGS (12 February 1815 – 18 November 1854) was a Manx naturalist. In 1846, he proposed that the distributions of montane plants and animals had been compressed downslope, and some oceanic islands connected to the mainland, during the recent ice age. This mechanism, which was the first natural explanation to explain the distributions of the same species on now-isolated islands and mountain tops, was discovered independently by Charles Darwin, who credited Forbes with the idea. He also incorrectly deduced the so-called azoic hypothesis, that life under the sea would decline to the point that no life forms could exist below a certain depth.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as biologists born between 1815 and 1815. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased biologists include Edward Forbes.
