BIOLOGIST

Birbal Sahni

1891 - 1949

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Birbal Sahni FRS (14 November 1891 – 10 April 1949) was an Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent. He also took an interest in geology and archaeology. He founded what is now the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany at Lucknow in 1946. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Birbal Sahni has received more than 439,650 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Birbal Sahni is the 870th most popular biologist (down from 633rd in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 65th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Pakistani Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Birbal Sahni ranks 870 out of 1,097. Before him are George Montagu, Henry Nicholas Ridley, Grigore Antipa, Thomas Campbell Eyton, Pierre Chambon, and Hermann Harms. After him are Charles Horton Peck, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Filippo Parlatore, Georg Ossian Sars, Jakob Emanuel Lange, and Carl Eduard Hellmayr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Birbal Sahni ranks 245. Before him are René Barbier, Eva Kotchever, Francis Pegahmagabow, Ernest Leonard Johnson, Boris Lavrenyov, and Hendrik Adamson. After him are Oliverio Girondo, Mamie Smith, Erik Lindahl, Jean Jacoby, Bernhard Zondek, and Béla von Kehrling. Among people deceased in 1949, Birbal Sahni ranks 159. Before him are Gregory Mathews, George Larner, Clarence Kingsbury, Henry Petersen, Linda Arvidson, and Nils Östensson. After him are Leon Schlesinger, J. Searle Dawley, William Henry Dean, Karolina Widerström, Robert Ripley, and Léon Frapié.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Birbal Sahni ranks 88 out of 217. Before him are Noor Jehan (1926), Shekhar Kapur (1945), Babita (1947), Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (1893), Shaukat Aziz (1949), and Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690). After him are Muhammad Khan Junejo (1932), Margaret Lockwood (1916), Raja Pervaiz Ashraf (1950), J. B. Kripalani (1888), Sadhana Shivdasani (1941), and Prem Chopra (1935).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Pakistan

Among biologists born in Pakistan, Birbal Sahni ranks 2. Before him are Har Gobind Khorana (1922).

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