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Clarke Abel

1780 - 1826

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Clarke Abel (5 September 1780 – 24 November 1826) was a British surgeon and naturalist. The standard author abbreviation C. Abel is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. He accompanied Lord Amherst on his mission to China in 1816-17 as the embassy's chief medical officer and naturalist, on the recommendation of Sir Joseph Banks. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clarke Abel has received more than 24,601 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Clarke Abel is the 327th most popular physician (down from 275th in 2019), the 1,786th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,523rd in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Physician.

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  • 54.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Clarke Abel ranks 327 out of 726. Before him are Ferdinand Sauerbruch, William Cullen, Dorothea Erxleben, Howard Florey, James Curtis Hepburn, and Willi Graf. After him are Carlos Finlay, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, Tomáš Špidlík, Eugene Botkin, Gabor Maté, and Jack Kevorkian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Clarke Abel ranks 22. Before him are Tudor Vladimirescu, August Leopold Crelle, Hinrich Lichtenstein, Anastasio Bustamante, Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg, and Charles Maturin. After him are Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Angelica Catalani, Princess Augusta of Prussia, Conradin Kreutzer, Élie, duc Decazes, and Alexandre Deschapelles. Among people deceased in 1826, Clarke Abel ranks 31. Before him are Nikolay Rumyantsev, Conrad Malte-Brun, Jean Lafitte, Shaykh Ahmad, John Flaxman, and Fyodor Rostopchin. After him are Johann Peter Hebel, Georg Franz Hoffmann, Claire Lacombe, Pavel Pestel, Anton Walter, and Christian Kramp.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Clarke Abel ranks 1,786 out of 8,785. Before him are William Buckland (1784), David Roberts (1796), Stephen Toulmin (1922), William Jones (1675), Derek Jarman (1942), and Shakin' Stevens (1948). After him are Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), Aelred of Rievaulx (1110), Robert Palmer (1949), Asma al-Assad (1975), John Badham (1939), and John Fastolf (1380).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Clarke Abel ranks 27. Before him are Thomas Addison (1793), Henry Gray (1827), Thomas Sydenham (1624), John Latham (1740), Lorna Wing (1928), and William Cullen (1710). After him are James Braid (1795), Robert Darwin (1766), Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (1816), William Bayliss (1860), Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836), and William Gull (1816).

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