BIOLOGIST

Amos Eaton

1776 - 1842

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Amos Eaton (May 17, 1776 – May 10, 1842) was an American botanist, geologist, and educator who is considered the founder of the modern scientific prospectus in education, which was a radical departure from the American liberal arts tradition of classics, theology, lecture, and recitation. Eaton co-founded the Rensselaer School in 1824 with Stephen van Rensselaer III "in the application of science to the common purposes of life". His books in the eighteenth century were among the first published for which a systematic treatment of the United States was attempted, and in a language that all could read. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amos Eaton has received more than 61,610 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Amos Eaton is the 1,006th most popular biologist (down from 939th in 2019), the 10,953rd most popular biography from United States (up from 12,066th in 2019) and the 152nd most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Amos Eaton ranks 1,006 out of 1,097. Before him are Prideaux John Selby, Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz, William Healey Dall, Peter Watts, Fanny Hesse, and Maxine Singer. After him are Carl H. Eigenmann, Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim, Jessica Meir, George R. Price, Timothy Ray Brown, and Alice Wilson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1776, Amos Eaton ranks 41. Before him are Ignaz Schuppanzigh, François Marie Daudin, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Sydney, Lady Morgan, Dániel Berzsenyi, and Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh. After him are Charles Hamilton Smith, and George M. Bibb. Among people deceased in 1842, Amos Eaton ranks 40. Before him are Henry Shrapnel, James Ivory, Letitia Christian Tyler, William Ellery Channing, Aylmer Bourke Lambert, and Archibald Menzies. After him are William Hobson, James Barbour, John Sell Cotman, Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, Chand Kaur, and Daniel Beale.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Amos Eaton ranks 10,953 out of 20,380. Before him are Faith Evans (1973), Ted Sorensen (1928), Daniel Kleppner (1932), Bob Clark (1939), Rory Cochrane (1972), and Henry Proctor (1929). After him are Alan Rachins (1942), Worthington Whittredge (1820), Gerrit Graham (1948), Christopher Ferguson (1961), Chester Morris (1901), and Macklemore (1983).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Amos Eaton ranks 152. Before him are Christof Koch (1956), Beatrice Mintz (1921), Paul Sereno (1957), William Healey Dall (1845), Fanny Hesse (1850), and Maxine Singer (1931). After him are Jessica Meir (1977), George R. Price (1922), Timothy Ray Brown (1966), John Bartram (1699), Elliott Coues (1842), and Rosa Smith Eigenmann (1858).

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