BIOLOGIST

Aldo Leopold

1887 - 1948

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Aldo Leopold (January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948) was an American writer, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949), which has been translated into fourteen languages and has sold more than two million copies. Leopold was influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness conservation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aldo Leopold has received more than 1,152,567 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Aldo Leopold is the 469th most popular biologist (up from 491st in 2019), the 4,238th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,787th in 2019) and the 70th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Aldo Leopold ranks 469 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Bauhin, Robert Sapolsky, Joseph Gaertner, Carl Ludwig Koch, Camille Guérin, and W. D. Hamilton. After him are Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, Agostino Bassi, Anders Dahl, Alexander Kovalevsky, Jacques Loeb, and Dmitry Belyayev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Aldo Leopold ranks 159. Before him are Norman L. Bowen, Peter Arshinov, Marc Mitscher, Hector Hodler, Alan Cunningham, and Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena. After him are Ernst Toch, Armen Ohanian, Josef Frings, Maria Jeritza, Pyotr Nesterov, and Govind Ballabh Pant. Among people deceased in 1948, Aldo Leopold ranks 107. Before him are Alfred Kerr, Vicente Huidobro, Monteiro Lobato, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, Kan Kikuchi, and Gerardo Matos Rodríguez. After him are Richard Tauber, Eugen Slutsky, Hulusi Behçet, Avetis Aharonian, Fred Niblo, and Subhadra Kumari Chauhan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Aldo Leopold ranks 4,238 out of 20,380. Before him are James Longstreet (1821), Dwight L. Moody (1837), Jim Davis (1945), Roy Buchanan (1939), Freddie Hubbard (1938), and Jesse Jane (1980). After him are Imogen Cunningham (1883), Jeannette Rankin (1880), Fanny Bullock Workman (1859), Edward Furlong (1977), Linda Fiorentino (1958), and Gary Coleman (1968).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Aldo Leopold ranks 70. Before him are Robert Gallo (1937), Brian Kobilka (1955), Martha Chase (1927), Luther Burbank (1849), Eugene Odum (1913), and Robert Sapolsky (1957). After him are Elmer Drew Merrill (1876), Francis Collins (1950), Theodore Gill (1837), Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835), Arthur Cronquist (1919), and Frederic Clements (1874).

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