BIOLOGIST

Alfred Newton

1829 - 1907

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Alfred Newton FRS HFRSE (11 June 1829 – 7 June 1907) was an English zoologist and ornithologist. Newton was Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University from 1866 to 1907. Among his numerous publications were a four-volume Dictionary of Birds (1893–6), entries on ornithology in the Encyclopædia Britannica (9th edition) while also an editor of the journal Ibis from 1865 to 1870. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Newton has received more than 69,891 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Alfred Newton is the 543rd most popular biologist (up from 571st in 2019), the 386th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 391st in 2019) and the 21st most popular Swiss Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alfred Newton ranks 543 out of 1,097. Before him are Franz Meyen, Marie Jules César Savigny, Paul Bert, Oswald Heer, Albrecht Thaer, and Johann Friedrich Meckel. After him are Jean-Pierre Changeux, Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, Harald Sverdrup, Otto von Münchhausen, Akira Miyawaki, and John Gilbert Baker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Alfred Newton ranks 50. Before him are Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg, Antonio Guzmán Blanco, Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure, Laurence Oliphant, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and Jean Dufresne. After him are Suzanne Manet, Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, Lester Allan Pelton, Edmond Albius, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, and August Malmström. Among people deceased in 1907, Alfred Newton ranks 66. Before him are Prince Arnulf of Bavaria, Maurice Loewy, Ernst von Bergmann, Bernhard Hammer, Léon Serpollet, and Ludwig Thuille. After him are William Howard Russell, Luis Sáenz Peña, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Otto Kuntze, and Edward Routh.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Alfred Newton ranks 386 out of 1,015. Before him are Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687), Philippe Jaccottet (1925), Oswald Heer (1809), Emil Frey (1838), Archduchess Charlotte of Austria (1921), and Didier Queloz (1966). After him are Werner Bischof (1916), Jules Gilliéron (1854), René Burri (1933), Samuel Schmid (1947), Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice (1972), and Henry, Duke of Parma (1873).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Alfred Newton ranks 21. Before him are Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810), Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818), Carl Meissner (1800), Johann Bauhin (1541), Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (1829), and Oswald Heer (1809). After him are Johann Amman (1707), John Isaac Briquet (1870), Émil Goeldi (1859), Heinrich Zollinger (1818), Johannes Müller Argoviensis (1828), and Casimir de Candolle (1836).

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