BIOLOGIST

Arthur Tansley

1871 - 1955

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Sir Arthur George Tansley FLS, FRS (15 August 1871 – 25 November 1955) was an English botanist and a pioneer in the science of ecology.Educated at Highgate School, University College London and Trinity College, Cambridge, Tansley taught at these universities and at Oxford, where he served as Sherardian Professor of Botany until his retirement in 1937. Tansley founded the New Phytologist in 1902 and served as its editor until 1931. He was a pioneer of the science of ecology in Britain, being heavily influenced by the work of Danish botanist Eugenius Warming, and introduced the concept of the ecosystem into biology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Tansley has received more than 192,359 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Tansley is the 363rd most popular biologist (down from 274th in 2019), the 1,918th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,695th in 2019) and the 51st most popular British Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

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  • 54.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Arthur Tansley has had the most page views in the with 20,874 views, followed by Spanish (9,769), and Russian (5,476). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are West Frisian (89.97%), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (50.00%), and Hebrew (49.14%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Arthur Tansley ranks 363 out of 1,097. Before him are Pierre Magnol, Antoine de Jussieu, Achille Richard, William Jackson Hooker, Pierre Edmond Boissier, and Rudolf Jakob Camerarius. After him are John Gould, Karl Koch, Robert Gallo, John Hughlings Jackson, Georg Joseph Kamel, and Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Arthur Tansley ranks 71. Before him are Alajos Szokolyi, Abanindranath Tagore, Giuseppe Motta, George Washington, John Millington Synge, and Wilhelm von Mirbach. After him are Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Ivan Poddubny, Claus Schilling, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, Hubert Cecil Booth, and Emily Carr. Among people deceased in 1955, Arthur Tansley ranks 74. Before him are Edward Kasner, Robert W. Wood, Léon Werth, Isak Samokovlija, Holger Nielsen, and Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are Jim Corbett, Jirō Minami, Horace McCoy, Carl Milles, Ona Munson, and Louis Charles Breguet.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Tansley ranks 1,918 out of 8,785. Before him are William Watson (1715), William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759), Penelope Fitzgerald (1916), Willibald (700), Gerald Gardner (1884), and Mary Cartwright (1900). After him are Prince William of Gloucester (1941), Mary Hopkin (1950), Julian Lennon (1963), Colin Davis (1927), George Whitefield (1714), and Cynric (450).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Arthur Tansley ranks 51. Before him are John Maynard Smith (1920), George Bentham (1800), Patrick Geddes (1854), John Sulston (1942), Rupert Sheldrake (1942), and William Jackson Hooker (1785). After him are John Gould (1804), John Hughlings Jackson (1835), John Stevens Henslow (1796), Samuel Frederick Gray (1766), Roderick Murchison (1792), and Robert Fortune (1812).

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