The Most Famous
BIOLOGISTS from Jamaica
This page contains a list of the greatest Jamaican Biologists. The pantheon dataset contains 841 Biologists, 1 of which were born in Jamaica. This makes Jamaica the birth place of the 54th most number of Biologists behind Isle of Man and Taiwan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Jamaican Biologists of all time. This list of famous Jamaican Biologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. John Belchier (1706 - 1785)
With an HPI of 42.41, John Belchier is the most famous Jamaican Biologist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
John Belchier (1706 – 6 February 1785) was a British surgeon at Guy's Hospital from 1736 to 1768. He discovered at about the time of his Guy's appointment that the vegetable dye madder stained newly forming bone tissue, opening up the study of the growth and development of the skeleton, which was taken forward by Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau and John Hunter. Belchier was awarded the Copley Medal by the Royal Society in 1737. He was a founding governor for the Foundling Hospital, a charity created by Royal Charter in 1739, and was a member of the Court of Assistants at the Company of Surgeons from 1751 to 1785.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as biologists born between 1706 and 1706. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased biologists include John Belchier. As of April 2022, 1 new biologists have been added to Pantheon including John Belchier.
