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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 65,418 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Agnes Arber is the 393rd most popular historian (down from 304th in 2019), the 3,871st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,653rd in 2019) and the 43rd most popular British Historian.

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  • 24

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  • 4.42

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  • 3.17

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Agnes Arber ranks 393 out of 339. Before her are Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Jens, Richard J. Evans, Sara Ashurbeyli, Zdeněk Nejedlý, and Simon Schama. After her are George Grote, Benjamin Mazar, Samuel Eliot Morison, Rudolph Rummel, Timothy Garton Ash, and Charles A. Beard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Agnes Arber ranks 180. Before her are Kazimieras Būga, John Ireland, Henri Tauzin, Ángel Cabrera, Lewis Stone, and Clyde Cessna. After her are Birger Sörvik, Frederick Schule, Gabriel Miró, Arthur Johnson, Vivian Woodward, and Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook. Among people deceased in 1960, Agnes Arber ranks 165. Before her are Henri De Deken, Francis Parker Yockey, Gustaf Lindblom, Ángel Cabrera, Virginia Bolten, and Carlos Mendieta. After her are Juan Jover, Diana Barrymore, Joseph Wendel, Algisto Lorenzato, Otto Nilsson, and Luiz Vinhaes.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Agnes Arber ranks 3,871 out of 7,765. Before her are Boz Burrell (1946), Thomas Thomson (1817), Steve Hogarth (1956), Celia Imrie (1952), Jonathan Sacks (1948), and John Gray (1948). After her are Robert Herrick (1591), William Davenant (1606), Anna Lee (1913), Heather Angel (1909), Calvin Harris (1984), and Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Agnes Arber ranks 43. Before her are Martin Gilbert (1936), Niall Ferguson (1964), Jonathan Riley-Smith (1938), William Robertson (1721), Richard J. Evans (1947), and Simon Schama (1945). After her are George Grote (1794), Timothy Garton Ash (1955), Kenneth Clark (1903), Arthur Smith Woodward (1864), Robert Service (1947), and Donald Nicol (1923).

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