BIOLOGIST

Charles Bell

1774 - 1842

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Sir Charles Bell (12 November 1774 – 28 April 1842) was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist, physiologist, neurologist, artist, and philosophical theologian. He is noted for discovering the difference between sensory nerves and motor nerves in the spinal cord. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Bell has received more than 259,514 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Charles Bell is the 200th most popular biologist (down from 185th in 2019), the 1,139th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,179th in 2019) and the 30th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 58.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charles Bell ranks 200 out of 1,097. Before him are Asa Gray, Alexander Agassiz, Temple Grandin, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, and John James Audubon. After him are Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Oldfield Thomas, Adam Afzelius, Waldemar Haffkine, J. B. S. Haldane, and Pierre Belon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Charles Bell ranks 14. Before him are Francis Beaufort, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, William Henry, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, and Salomon Mayer von Rothschild. After him are Christian Leopold von Buch, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Robert Southey, Lord William Bentinck, Francis Baily, and Matthew Flinders. Among people deceased in 1842, Charles Bell ranks 13. Before him are Jules Dumont d'Urville, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Dominique Jean Larrey, Pierre Cambronne, and Peter Fendi. After him are Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Francisco Morazán, José de Espronceda, Wojciech Żywny, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, and Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Bell ranks 1,139 out of 8,785. Before him are John Stewart Bell (1928), Gareth Jones (1905), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689), Adrian Lyne (1941), William Bligh (1754), and Angus Deaton (1945). After him are Warren Hastings (1732), Allen Carr (1934), Domnall mac Ailpín (812), John Austin (1790), Lord Randolph Churchill (1849), and Francis Walsingham (1532).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Charles Bell ranks 30. Before him are John Boyd Orr (1880), Anna Atkins (1799), George Robert Gray (1808), Ian Wilmut (1944), Henry Walter Bates (1825), and George Shaw (1751). After him are Oldfield Thomas (1858), J. B. S. Haldane (1892), Thomas Browne (1605), Joseph Banks (1743), Desmond Morris (1928), and Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942).

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