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Ann Bishop

1899 - 1990

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Ann Bishop (19 December 1899 – 7 May 1990) was a British biologist from Girton College at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Society, one of the few female Fellows of the Royal Society. She was born in Manchester but stayed at Cambridge for the vast majority of her professional life. Her specialties were protozoology and parasitology; early work with ciliate parasites, including the one responsible for blackhead disease in the domesticated turkey, lay the groundwork for her later research. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ann Bishop has received more than 7,538 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Ann Bishop is the 909th most popular biologist, the 4,432nd most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 140th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ann Bishop ranks 909 out of 1,097. Before her are William Yarrell, Sereno Watson, Thomas Nuttall, Ruth Patrick, Colin Munro MacLeod, and Robert May, Baron May of Oxford. After her are Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, G. Ledyard Stebbins, Nikolai Turczaninow, Jan-Just Bos, Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, and Mark Catesby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Ann Bishop ranks 271. Before her are Robin Hill, Américo Tesoriere, Hendrik Marsman, Vince Gallagher, Ilse Bing, and Giorgio Chiavacci. After her are Juliusz Schauder, Alan Washbond, Lillian Disney, Richard Arlen, Lonnie Johnson, and Neil Hamilton. Among people deceased in 1990, Ann Bishop ranks 257. Before her are Ian Charleson, Władysław Rubin, Max Bulla, Joel de Oliveira Monteiro, Costa Pereira, and Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan. After her are Ralph Abernathy, Harold Eugene Edgerton, František Douda, Mahmoud Namjoo, Ettore Giannini, and Mohamed Latif.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ann Bishop ranks 4,432 out of 8,785. Before her are Thomas Sully (1783), Leander Starr Jameson (1853), Polly Walker (1966), Edgar Evans (1876), Keir Hardie (1856), and L. S. Lowry (1887). After her are Piers Sellers (1955), Peter Morgan (1963), Thomas Lewis (1881), John Prescott (1938), Anthony Newley (1931), and Sophie Ellis-Bextor (1979).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Ann Bishop ranks 140. Before her are Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854), David Goodall (1914), Francis Willughby (1635), Robert Morison (1620), William Yarrell (1784), and Thomas Nuttall (1786). After her are Mark Catesby (1683), Edward Newton (1832), William Sherard (1659), Richard Thomas Lowe (1802), Robert Wight (1796), and Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761).

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