BIOLOGIST

Archibald Menzies

1754 - 1842

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Archibald Menzies ( MING-iss; 15 March 1754 – 15 February 1842) was a Scottish surgeon, botanist and naturalist. He spent many years at sea, serving with the Royal Navy, private merchants, and the Vancouver Expedition. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Archibald Menzies has received more than 75,548 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Archibald Menzies is the 968th most popular biologist (down from 901st in 2019), the 4,942nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,873rd in 2019) and the 160th most popular British Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Archibald Menzies has had the most page views in the with 8,305 views, followed by Spanish (968), and Polish (833). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (128.03%), Estonian (81.48%), and Indonesian (39.86%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Archibald Menzies ranks 968 out of 1,097Before her are Aimée Antoinette Camus, João Barbosa Rodrigues, Alexander Wetmore, Alexander Wendt, James Chapin, and John Lawrence LeConte. After her are William Diller Matthew, Robert H. MacArthur, Leonhard Stejneger, Sarah Gilbert, Irene Pepperberg, and Gilbert White.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Archibald Menzies ranks 56Before her are Juan Meléndez Valdés, Alexander Shishkov, George Crabbe, José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, Abraham Baldwin, and Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings. After her is Joel Barlow. Among people deceased in 1842, Archibald Menzies ranks 39Before her are Aleksey Koltsov, Henry Shrapnel, James Ivory, Letitia Christian Tyler, William Ellery Channing, and Aylmer Bourke Lambert. After her are Amos Eaton, William Hobson, James Barbour, John Sell Cotman, Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, and Chand Kaur.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Archibald Menzies ranks 4,942 out of 8,785Before her are Henry Roscoe (1833), Ann Lee (1967), R. J. Mitchell (1895), Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (1792), Gary McAllister (1964), and Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (1880). After her are Dave Stewart (1950), Gem Archer (1966), Iolo Morganwg (1747), Geraldine Beamish (1883), Ian Burgess (1930), and Malcolm Gladwell (1963).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Archibald Menzies ranks 160Before her are Alister Hardy (1896), Maxwell T. Masters (1833), William T. Stearn (1911), Edward Lhuyd (1660), John Hutton Balfour (1808), and Richard Meinertzhagen (1878). After her are Sarah Gilbert (1962), Gilbert White (1720), Hugh Huxley (1924), Lancelot Hogben (1895), David Douglas (1799), and Bryan Sykes (1947).