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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. His ethics of nature and wildlife preservation had a profound impact on the environmental movement, with his ecocentric or holistic ethics regarding land. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aldo Leopold has received more than 1,060,899 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Aldo Leopold is the 492nd most popular biologist (down from 471st in 2019), the 4,799th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,265th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Aldo Leopold ranks 492 out of 841Before him are Reginald Punnett, Martin Rathke, Jules Émile Planchon, Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, Johann Friedrich Meckel, and Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent. After him are Emilie Snethlage, Samuel Frederick Gray, Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Carl Jakob Sundevall, Alessandra Giliani, and Franz von Paula Schrank.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Aldo Leopold ranks 160Before him are Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Marianne Moore, Josef Frings, Oskar Luts, Julius Pokorny, and Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt. After him are Pierre Jean Jouve, Johann Radon, Leevi Madetoja, Sylvia Beach, Louis Leon Thurstone, and Maria Jeritza. Among people deceased in 1948, Aldo Leopold ranks 110Before him are František Svoboda, Sigrid Hjertén, Thekla Resvoll, Phraya Manopakorn Nititada, Alfred Kerr, and Henning Jakob Henrik Lund. After him are Jāzeps Vītols, Hulusi Behçet, Wesley Clair Mitchell, Richard von Kühlmann, Nikolai Podvoisky, and José Vianna da Motta.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Aldo Leopold ranks 4,799 out of 18,182Before him are Joel McCrea (1905), Grant Show (1962), Gilbert Stuart (1755), Henry Cowell (1897), Connie Willis (1945), and Johnny Thunders (1952). After him are Travis Barker (1975), John Elkann (1976), Debbie Allen (1950), Michael Freedman (1951), John Hay (1838), and Signe Toly Anderson (1941).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Aldo Leopold ranks 72Before him are Martha Chase (1927), James P. Allison (1948), Sewall Wright (1889), Esther Lederberg (1922), Craig Mello (1960), and Garrett Hardin (1915). After him are Charles David Keeling (1928), David Starr Jordan (1851), Arthur Cronquist (1919), George C. Williams (1926), Robert Sapolsky (1957), and Mary Agnes Chase (1869).