BIOLOGIST

Alice Catherine Evans

1881 - 1975

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Alice Catherine Evans (January 29, 1881 – September 5, 1975) was an American microbiologist. She became a researcher at the U.S. Department of Agriculture where she investigated bacteriology in milk and cheese. She proved that Bacillus abortus (called Brucella abortus) caused the disease brucellosis (undulant fever or Malta fever) in both cattle and humans, which led to the pasteurization of milk in the US in 1930. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alice Catherine Evans has received more than 168,253 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Alice Catherine Evans is the 823rd most popular biologist (up from 916th in 2019), the 7,760th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,556th in 2019) and the 112th most popular American Biologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alice Catherine Evans ranks 823 out of 1,097. Before her are Gaston Bonnier, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, Carl Bolle, Jules Pierre Rambur, and Charles Wallace Richmond. After her are William Hemsley, Johann Jakob Bernhardi, John Jacob Abel, Joseph Rock, Paul Henri Lecomte, and Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Alice Catherine Evans ranks 190. Before her are Alfredo Gollini, Valerian Albanov, Ricardo Samper, William Clothier, Howard Valentine, and Dimitrana Ivanova. After her are Gösta Åsbrink, Désiré Beaurain, Martin Sheridan, Lajos Gönczy, Willem Hubert van Blijenburgh, and Huseyn Arablinski. Among people deceased in 1975, Alice Catherine Evans ranks 215. Before her are Erico Verissimo, Otto Winzer, Thomas Hart Benton, Nils Eriksen, Pyotr Novikov, and Andrzej Mostowski. After her are Viktor Anichkin, Paul Peter Meouchi, László Németh, Adrienne Bolland, Sigmund Haringer, and Paul Montel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alice Catherine Evans ranks 7,760 out of 20,380. Before her are John Legend (1978), John Schneider (1960), Matthew Labyorteaux (1966), Peter Gould (1950), Sabin Carr (1904), and Stuart Kauffman (1939). After her are Shelley Morrison (1936), Ninja (1991), Trey Parker (1969), Robert Kramer (1939), Rudy Tomjanovich (1948), and Carl A. Wirtanen (1910).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Alice Catherine Evans ranks 112. Before her are Paul R. Ehrlich (1932), Alfred Romer (1894), Robert Trivers (1943), Herbert Copeland (1902), Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey (1863), and Charles Wallace Richmond (1868). After her are John Jacob Abel (1857), Judah Folkman (1933), Mary Katharine Brandegee (1844), Robert Ridgway (1850), John Torrey (1796), and Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858).

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