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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 242,852 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Charles Bell is the 186th most popular biologist (down from 159th in 2019), the 1,183rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,068th in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charles Bell ranks 186 out of 841Before him are George Wald, Joseph Banks, Ana Aslan, George Smith, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, and Carl Linnaeus the Younger. After him are Friedrich Parrot, Henry Walter Bates, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Humberto Maturana, Salim Ali, and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Charles Bell ranks 11Before him are Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, Francis Beaufort, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Gaspare Spontini, and Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. After him are William Henry, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Christian Leopold von Buch, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, Matthew Flinders, and Lord William Bentinck. Among people deceased in 1842, Charles Bell ranks 14Before him are Clemens Brentano, Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, Dominique Jean Larrey, Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Pierre Cambronne, and Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi. After him are Peter Fendi, José de Espronceda, Wojciech Żywny, Francisco Morazán, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, and Pierre Joseph Pelletier.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Bell ranks 1,183 out of 7,765Before him are Chris Patten (1944), Peter Collins (1931), Edward Bach (1886), Blanche of Lancaster (1345), Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1287), and Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884). After him are Joan of Kent (1328), Greer Garson (1904), Thomas Hodgkin (1798), Nicko McBrain (1952), William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800), and Dave Murray (1956).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Charles Bell ranks 29Before him are Desmond Morris (1928), Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), Anna Atkins (1799), Michael Houghton (1949), J. B. S. Haldane (1892), and Joseph Banks (1743). After him are Henry Walter Bates (1825), John Boyd Orr (1880), Thomas Browne (1605), John Lindley (1799), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), and George Shaw (1751).