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BIOLOGIST

Charles Wyville Thomson

1830 - 1882

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Sir Charles Wyville Thomson (5 March 1830 – 10 March 1882) was a Scottish natural historian and marine zoologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Wyville Thomson has received more than 74,625 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 18 in 2019). Charles Wyville Thomson is the 605th most popular biologist (down from 563rd in 2019), the 3,132nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,793rd in 2019) and the 80th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 75k

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  • 47.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charles Wyville Thomson ranks 605 out of 841. Before him are Edward Turner Bennett, Heinrich Boie, David Suzuki, Pier Andrea Saccardo, Franz Steindachner, and Michele Tenore. After him are Theodore Gill, Everard Home, Augustin Saint-Hilaire, William Henry Hudson, Otto Bütschli, and Tommaso Salvadori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Charles Wyville Thomson ranks 55. Before him are Harriet Lane, Clémence Royer, Kálmán Tisza, Gustav Lange, Juan Manuel Blanes, and Clements Markham. After him are Peter Arnold Heise, Karolina Světlá, Henry Bird, Viktor Madarász, Daniel Oliver, and John Moresby. Among people deceased in 1882, Charles Wyville Thomson ranks 58. Before him are Auguste Barbier, Juraj Dobrila, Ferdinand Reich, Franz von Schober, Joseph Decaisne, and Johann Benedict Listing. After him are Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff, Ion Andreescu, Ernest Courtot de Cissey, William Shanks, Antoine Bussy, and William Harrison Ainsworth.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Wyville Thomson ranks 3,132 out of 7,765. Before him are Vic Elford (1935), Paul Bernays (1888), John Arthur Jarvis (1872), Henry Raeburn (1756), Reg Parnell (1911), and John Evans (1823). After him are Charles Avison (1709), Grey Owl (1888), Dave Charlton (1936), Charles Crichton (1910), David Murray (1909), and Alexander McDonnell (1798).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Charles Wyville Thomson ranks 80. Before him are Philip Henry Gosse (1810), John Gilbert Baker (1834), John Anderson (1833), Anne McLaren (1927), William Withering (1741), and Edward Turner Bennett (1797). After him are Everard Home (1756), William John Burchell (1781), Philip Barker-Webb (1793), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), Andrew Smith (1797), and Edward Newton (1832).

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