BIOLOGIST

Alfred Romer

1894 - 1973

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Alfred Sherwood Romer (December 28, 1894 – November 5, 1973) was an American paleontologist and biologist and a specialist in vertebrate evolution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Romer has received more than 72,111 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Alfred Romer is the 793rd most popular biologist (up from 841st in 2019), the 7,423rd most popular biography from United States (up from 8,577th in 2019) and the 107th most popular American Biologist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alfred Romer ranks 793 out of 1,097Before him are Johannes Müller Argoviensis, Warwick Estevam Kerr, Domenico Vandelli, Philipp Christoph Zeller, Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, and Karel Domin. After him are Thomas Andrew Knight, Amalie Dietrich, Mary Elizabeth Barber, Jacques Miller, William Townsend Aiton, and Francisco Manuel Blanco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Alfred Romer ranks 210Before him are Raymond Schwartz, Mahmud Taymur, Roger Vercel, Alan Crosland, Ludwig Wrede, and Hermanis Matisons. After him are Nikolai Chebotaryov, Tommy Green, Billy Bishop, Renzo De Vecchi, Georgy Ivanov, and Billy Gilbert. Among people deceased in 1973, Alfred Romer ranks 215Before him are Mahmud Taymur, Alfred Schmitt, Robert Armstrong, Carlos Schneeberger, Gustav Freij, and Émile Reuter. After him are Cecil Kellaway, Romeo Bertini, Earl Browder, Grigore Moisil, Dudley Senanayake, and Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alfred Romer ranks 7,423 out of 20,380Before him are Sean Lennon (1975), Michael J. Anderson (1953), Joy Mangano (1956), Lewis Sheldon (1874), Johnny Mercer (1909), and Rosie O'Donnell (1962). After him are Ian Keith (1899), Vera-Ellen (1921), Henry Vestine (1944), John Jeffries (1745), Jon Turteltaub (1963), and Stephen P. Synnott (1946).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Alfred Romer ranks 107Before him are Neil Campbell (1946), Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823), Alfred G. Knudson (1922), Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859), Joseph Banks Rhine (1895), and Paul R. Ehrlich (1932). After him are Robert Trivers (1943), Herbert Copeland (1902), Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey (1863), Charles Wallace Richmond (1868), Alice Catherine Evans (1881), and John Jacob Abel (1857).