1743 - 1828
Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg (11 November 1743 – 8 August 1828), was a Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus. After studying under Linnaeus at Uppsala University, he spent seven years travelling in southern Italy and Asia, collecting and describing people and animals new to European science, and observing local cultures. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Peter Thunberg has received more than 158,211 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Carl Peter Thunberg is the 98th most popular biologist (down from 68th in 2019), the 126th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 107th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swedish Biologist.
Carl Peter Thunberg was a Swedish botanist who traveled to Japan in 1775 and brought back many new plant species to Europe.
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Among biologists, Carl Peter Thunberg ranks 98 out of 841. Before him are Bernard Katz, Ibn al-Baitar, William Carey, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Thomas Huckle Weller, and Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin. After him are Nikolay Pirogov, Philip Sclater, Hans Christian Gram, Martinus Beijerinck, Günter Blobel, and Charles Lucien Bonaparte.
1911 - 2003
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 92
1197 - 1248
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 93
1761 - 1834
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 94
1656 - 1708
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 95
1915 - 2008
HPI: 62.00
Rank: 96
1855 - 1935
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 97
1743 - 1828
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 98
1810 - 1881
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 99
1829 - 1913
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 100
1853 - 1938
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 101
1851 - 1931
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 102
1936 - 2018
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 103
1803 - 1857
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 104
Among people born in 1743, Carl Peter Thunberg ranks 12. Before him are Alessandro Cagliostro, Marquis de Condorcet, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Toussaint Louverture, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. After him are Edmund Cartwright, Nicolai Abildgaard, René Just Haüy, William I, Elector of Hesse, Gavrila Derzhavin, and Joseph Banks. Among people deceased in 1828, Carl Peter Thunberg ranks 9. Before him are Shaka, Maria Feodorovna, Victor of Aveyron, Alexander Ypsilantis, Jean-Antoine Houdon, and Franz Joseph Gall. After him are Karl Mack von Leiberich, Kobayashi Issa, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Charlotte, Princess Royal, William Hyde Wollaston, and Radama I.
1743 - 1795
HPI: 69.70
Rank: 6
1743 - 1794
HPI: 68.33
Rank: 7
1743 - 1808
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 8
1743 - 1803
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 9
1743 - 1817
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 10
1743 - 1819
HPI: 63.39
Rank: 11
1743 - 1828
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 12
1743 - 1823
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 13
1743 - 1809
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 14
1743 - 1822
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 15
1743 - 1821
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 16
1743 - 1816
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 17
1743 - 1820
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 18
1787 - 1828
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 3
1759 - 1828
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 4
1793 - 1828
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 5
1792 - 1828
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 6
1741 - 1828
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 7
1758 - 1828
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 8
1743 - 1828
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 9
1752 - 1828
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 10
1763 - 1828
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 11
1757 - 1828
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 12
1766 - 1828
HPI: 59.76
Rank: 13
1766 - 1828
HPI: 59.29
Rank: 14
1793 - 1828
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 15
Among people born in Sweden, Carl Peter Thunberg ranks 126 out of 1,612. Before him are Sven-Göran Eriksson (1948), Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896), Björn Andrésen (1955), Ingrid Thulin (1926), Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland (1912), and Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934). After him are Sune Bergström (1916), Birgit Nilsson (1918), Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler (1934), Gustav, Prince of Vasa (1799), Lennart Johansson (1929), and Charles VII of Sweden (1130).
1948 - Present
HPI: 62.12
Rank: 120
1896 - 1966
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 121
1955 - Present
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 122
1926 - 2004
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 123
1912 - 1997
HPI: 62.01
Rank: 124
1934 - Present
HPI: 61.99
Rank: 125
1743 - 1828
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 126
1916 - 2004
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 127
1918 - 2005
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 128
1934 - Present
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 129
1799 - 1877
HPI: 61.71
Rank: 130
1929 - 2019
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 131
1130 - 1167
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 132
Among biologists born in Sweden, Carl Peter Thunberg ranks 4. Before him are Carl Linnaeus (1707), Hugo Theorell (1903), and Tomas Lindahl (1938). After him are Elias Magnus Fries (1794), Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), Adam Afzelius (1750), Erik Acharius (1757), Eva Ekeblad (1724), Anders Sparrman (1748), and Göran Wahlenberg (1780).
1707 - 1778
HPI: 87.29
Rank: 1
1903 - 1982
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 2
1938 - Present
HPI: 62.96
Rank: 3
1743 - 1828
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 4
1794 - 1878
HPI: 60.14
Rank: 5
1630 - 1702
HPI: 59.29
Rank: 6
1741 - 1783
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 7
1750 - 1837
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 8
1757 - 1819
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 9
1724 - 1786
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 10
1748 - 1820
HPI: 53.20
Rank: 11
1780 - 1851
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 12