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BIOLOGIST

Barry Commoner

1917 - 2012

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Barry Commoner (May 28, 1917 – September 30, 2012) was an American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician. He was a leading ecologist and among the founders of the modern environmental movement. He was the director of the Center for Biology of Natural Systems and its Critical Genetics Project. He ran as the Citizens Party candidate in the 1980 U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barry Commoner has received more than 284,852 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Barry Commoner is the 381st most popular biologist, the 3,757th most popular biography from United States and the 63rd most popular American Biologist.

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  • 280k

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  • 52.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Barry Commoner ranks 381 out of 841. Before him are Daniel Solander, Camille Guérin, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Lorenz Heister, Carlo Allioni, and Georg Eberhard Rumphius. After him are Juan Ignacio Molina, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Armen Takhtajan, Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper, Edward Daniel Clarke, and Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Barry Commoner ranks 152. Before him are Armando Trovajoli, Philipp von Boeselager, Vasiľ Biľak, Adam Malik, Suzy Delair, and Ernst von Glasersfeld. After him are Zoltán Fábri, Caspar Weinberger, William H. McNeill, Red Auerbach, Dabbs Greer, and James Jesus Angleton. Among people deceased in 2012, Barry Commoner ranks 158. Before him are Ivica Horvat, Carlo Rambaldi, Eve Arnold, Vitaly Vorotnikov, José María Zárraga, and Lisa Della Casa. After him are George McGovern, Jack Klugman, Roy Salvadori, Adrienne Rich, Rajesh Khanna, and Friedrich Hirzebruch.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barry Commoner ranks 3,757 out of 18,182. Before him are Andrea Dworkin (1946), Josephine Hull (1877), Jon Bernthal (1976), Theodore Maiman (1927), Wesley Clark (1944), and Leslie Jones (1967). After him are Philip Arthur Fisher (1907), Sydne Rome (1951), Joseph Augustus Zarelli (1953), Paul Castellano (1915), Nan Goldin (1953), and Seymour Cassel (1935).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Barry Commoner ranks 63. Before him are Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), James Rothman (1950), Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), Eugene Odum (1913), Luther Burbank (1849), and Harold E. Varmus (1939). After him are Andrew Fire (1959), Brian Kobilka (1955), Martha Chase (1927), James P. Allison (1948), Sewall Wright (1889), and Esther Lederberg (1922).

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