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 80,978 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Wyville Thomson is the 753rd most popular biologist (down from 604th in 2019), the 3,639th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,124th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular British Biologist.

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  • 81k

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  • 54.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charles Wyville Thomson ranks 753 out of 1,097. Before him are David Ho, Louis Fraser, Neil Campbell, Akira Endo, George Romanes, and Mary F. Lyon. After him are August W. Eichler, Pál Kitaibel, Michele Tenore, John Gerard, Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein, and Albert Bruce Jackson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Charles Wyville Thomson ranks 59. Before him are Henry Peach Robinson, Juan Manuel Blanes, Karl Klindworth, Clements Markham, Clémence Royer, and James G. Blaine. After him are Peter Arnold Heise, Karolina Světlá, Jaroslav Čermák, Viktor Madarász, Daniel Oliver, and Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen. Among people deceased in 1882, Charles Wyville Thomson ranks 63. Before him are Ernest Courtot de Cissey, Juraj Dobrila, Franz von Schober, Julius Hübner, Alexander Gardner, and Katarina Ivanović. After him are Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff, Ion Andreescu, James Spriggs Payne, George Perkins Marsh, William Barton Rogers, and William Harrison Ainsworth.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Wyville Thomson ranks 3,639 out of 8,785. Before him are A. E. Housman (1859), Gerry Anderson (1929), Eddie Colman (1936), Christopher O'Neill (1974), Mary F. Lyon (1925), and John Smith (1938). After him are Sydney Greenstreet (1879), Roger Dean (1944), George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697), David Dunbar Buick (1854), David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven (1919), and William Davies Evans (1790).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Charles Wyville Thomson ranks 102. Before him are John Richardson (1787), Marmaduke Tunstall (1743), Miriam Rothschild (1908), John Anderson (1833), Louis Fraser (1810), and Mary F. Lyon (1925). After him are John Gerard (1545), Albert Bruce Jackson (1876), James Sowerby (1757), William Thomas Blanford (1832), Henry Baker (1698), and Thomas Andrew Knight (1759).

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