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Agnes Arber

1879 - 1960

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Agnes Arber FRS (née Robertson; 23 February 1879 – 22 March 1960) was a British plant morphologist and anatomist, historian of botany and philosopher of biology. She was born in London but lived most of her life in Cambridge, including the last 51 years of her life. She was the first woman botanist to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (21 March 1946, at the age of 67) and the third woman overall. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Agnes Arber has received more than 71,146 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Agnes Arber is the 399th most popular historian (down from 393rd in 2019), the 3,395th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,863rd in 2019) and the 35th most popular British Historian.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Agnes Arber ranks 399 out of 561. Before her are Serhii Plokhy, Michael Aris, Taner Akçam, Jerónimo Zurita y Castro, Gottfried Arnold, and Martin van Creveld. After her are Gerhard Ritter, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Stanley Morison, Olena Apanovych, Philip K. Hitti, and Vladimir Ćorović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Agnes Arber ranks 173. Before her are Émile Nelligan, Rudolf Friml, Will Rogers, Agnes Miegel, Grzegorz Fitelberg, and Ernst Schultz. After her are Sara Allgood, Steponas Kairys, Ellen Gleditsch, Kazimieras Būga, Manuel Arce y Ochotorena, and Sydney Greenstreet. Among people deceased in 1960, Agnes Arber ranks 155. Before her are Willem Elsschot, Frank Elmore Ross, Hasan Saka, Joseph Wendel, Pedro Arispe, and Harold Spencer Jones. After her are Leonard Warren, Bogoljub Jevtić, Roscoe Lockwood, Gaston Amson, Harry Blanchard, and Roelof Klein.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Agnes Arber ranks 3,395 out of 8,785. Before her are George Abecassis (1913), Joseph Noel Paton (1821), John Mawe (1764), Peter Grant (1935), John Houlding (1833), and Clint Mansell (1963). After her are Frederick Catherwood (1799), Janet Baker (1933), Roy Ward Baker (1916), Carlo Acutis (1991), Gwen John (1876), and James Thomson (1700).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Agnes Arber ranks 35. Before her are Edward Granville Browne (1862), Paul Kennedy (1945), John Keegan (1934), Francis Godwin (1562), Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (1931), and Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914). After her are Stanley Morison (1889), Thomas Fuller (1608), Thomas Walker Arnold (1864), G. M. Trevelyan (1876), Frederic G. Kenyon (1863), and William Mitchell Ramsay (1851).

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