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 300,938 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Barry Commoner is the 562nd most popular biologist (down from 380th in 2019), the 5,056th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,747th in 2019) and the 80th most popular American Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

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  • 50.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Barry Commoner ranks 562 out of 1,097. Before him are Edward Forbes, Andrew Smith, Johannes Burman, Mary Agnes Chase, Karl Alfred von Zittel, and Edward Turner Bennett. After him are Abu al-Abbas al-Nabati, Sabiha Kasimati, Eduard August von Regel, Hwang Woo-suk, Blasius Merrem, and John Ellis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Barry Commoner ranks 195. Before him are Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Song Ping, Lise Nørgaard, Johannes Bobrowski, Pío Leyva, and Adolfo Consolini. After him are Victor Marijnen, Gloria Fuertes, Minoru Chiaki, Yvette Chauviré, Knut Haugland, and Virginia Grey. Among people deceased in 2012, Barry Commoner ranks 219. Before him are Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Peter Carsten, Sergio Toppi, Francisco Xavier do Amaral, John Hick, and Simin Daneshvar. After him are Jim Marshall, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Humayun Ahmed, Takeshi Urata, Claude Miller, and Ulu Grosbard.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barry Commoner ranks 5,056 out of 20,380. Before him are Ethel Merman (1908), Ethel Catherwood (1908), Don Bragg (1935), William J. Donovan (1883), Carl Spaatz (1891), and Bob King (1906). After him are Arthur Blake (1872), Randy Crawford (1952), Rockwell Kent (1882), Josiah Royce (1855), Louis J. Mordell (1888), and Smedley Butler (1881).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Barry Commoner ranks 80. Before him are Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835), Arthur Cronquist (1919), Frederic Clements (1874), Craig Mello (1960), Alice Hamilton (1869), and Mary Agnes Chase (1869). After him are Sewall Wright (1889), Harold E. Varmus (1939), Garrett Hardin (1915), Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858), Jack Horner (1946), and Alfred Sturtevant (1891).

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