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Andrew Smith

1797 - 1872

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Sir Andrew Smith (3 December 1797 – 11 August 1872) was a British surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist. He is considered the father of zoology in South Africa having described many species across a wide range of groups in his major work, Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa. Smith was born in Hawick, Roxburghshire. He qualified in medicine at the University of Edinburgh obtaining an M.D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrew Smith has received more than 72,317 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Andrew Smith is the 557th most popular biologist (up from 664th in 2019), the 2,773rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,378th in 2019) and the 74th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 72k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Andrew Smith ranks 557 out of 1,097. Before him are Otto Kuntze, Augustin Saint-Hilaire, Salomon Müller, Johann Gerhard König, Oscar Hertwig, and Edward Forbes. After him are Johannes Burman, Mary Agnes Chase, Karl Alfred von Zittel, Edward Turner Bennett, Barry Commoner, and Abu al-Abbas al-Nabati.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Andrew Smith ranks 62. Before him are Ramón Castilla, Heinrich Kuhl, Anthony Panizzi, Michel Garicoïts, Alexander Bestuzhev, and Mariano Paredes. After him are Edward Turner Bennett, Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, Johann Andreas Wagner, Jean Victoir Audouin, and Carl Gustaf Mannerheim. Among people deceased in 1872, Andrew Smith ranks 49. Before him are Martin Ohm, Michele Carafa, Benjamin Briggs, George Catlin, Friedrich Welwitsch, and Ion Heliade Rădulescu. After him are Michel Carré, Henry Halleck, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, Hugo von Mohl, Dimitrija Demeter, and Nikolaos Mantzaros.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Andrew Smith ranks 2,773 out of 8,785. Before him are Joely Richardson (1965), G. I. Taylor (1886), Joseph Aspdin (1778), Ceol of Wessex (600), Tony Brise (1952), and William Hazlitt (1778). After him are Henry of Scotland (1115), James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811), Sally Potter (1949), Lennie James (1965), Ray Davies (1944), and William Turner (1510).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Andrew Smith ranks 74. Before him are Edward Blyth (1810), Paul Nurse (1949), Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847), Patrick Manson (1844), William Curtis (1746), and John Gilbert Baker (1834). After him are Edward Turner Bennett (1797), Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803), William Elford Leach (1791), Richard Lydekker (1849), Philip Henry Gosse (1810), and James Francis Stephens (1792).

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