BIOLOGIST

Asa Gray

1810 - 1888

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Asa Gray (November 18, 1810 – January 30, 1888) is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. His Darwiniana was considered an important explanation of how religion and science were not necessarily mutually exclusive. Gray was adamant that a genetic connection must exist between all members of a species. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Asa Gray has received more than 385,472 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Asa Gray is the 194th most popular biologist (up from 577th in 2019), the 1,778th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,521st in 2019) and the 35th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 58.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Asa Gray ranks 194 out of 1,097. Before him are Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Eva Ekeblad, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Daniel Nathans, Henry Walter Bates, and George Shaw. After him are Alexander Agassiz, Temple Grandin, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, John James Audubon, and Charles Bell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Asa Gray ranks 23. Before him are Fanny Elssler, Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Francesco Maria Piave, Elizabeth Gaskell, Karl Richard Lepsius, and Henri Victor Regnault. After him are Ferenc Erkel, Constant Troyon, Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre, Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, and Hans Christian Lumbye. Among people deceased in 1888, Asa Gray ranks 24. Before him are Mary Jane Kelly, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Ali Rıza Efendi, Mary Ann Nichols, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, and Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay. After him are Annie Chapman, Namık Kemal, Ludvig Nobel, Elizabeth Stride, Edward Lear, and Jean-Marie Guyau.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Asa Gray ranks 1,778 out of 20,380. Before him are Iris Apfel (1921), Clement Greenberg (1909), Elizabeth George (1949), Donna Reed (1921), Malcolm Glazer (1928), and Frank Wilczek (1951). After him are Robert J. Flaherty (1884), Ian Somerhalder (1978), Spiro Agnew (1918), Johnny Kitagawa (1931), Sterling Hayden (1916), and Clark L. Hull (1884).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Asa Gray ranks 35. Before him are Robert Whittaker (1920), Paul Greengard (1925), George Wald (1906), Stephen Jay Gould (1941), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), and Daniel Nathans (1928). After him are Temple Grandin (1947), Wilbur Scoville (1865), Michael W. Young (1949), H. Robert Horvitz (1947), James Dwight Dana (1813), and Clair Cameron Patterson (1922).

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