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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 22,994 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Clarke Abel is the 275th most popular physician (up from 291st in 2019), the 1,528th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,603rd in 2019) and the 24th most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Clarke Abel ranks 275 out of 502Before him are Michel-Gabriel Paccard, Edmond Locard, Bronisława Dłuska, John Hunter, Ferdinand Sauerbruch, and Friedrich Kasimir Medikus. After him are Cicely Saunders, Henry Gray, Antonio Maria Valsalva, Friedrich Hoffmann, Eduard Wirths, and Kálmán Kalocsay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Clarke Abel ranks 17Before him are Ranjit Singh, Mary Somerville, Karl Nesselrode, Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg, Charles Maturin, and Tudor Vladimirescu. After him are Bernardino Rivadavia, Georgios Karaiskakis, Hinrich Lichtenstein, Angelica Catalani, Princess Augusta of Prussia, and Heinrich Christian Schumacher. Among people deceased in 1826, Clarke Abel ranks 21Before him are Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Nikolay Karamzin, Levin August von Bennigsen, Johann Elert Bode, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, and Franz Danzi. After him are Johann Baptist von Spix, Jean Lafitte, François-Joseph Talma, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Johann Peter Hebel, and Shaykh Ahmad.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Clarke Abel ranks 1,528 out of 7,765Before him are E. P. Thompson (1924), James Faulkner (1948), Robert Stephenson (1803), Jim Carter (1948), William Paley (1743), and John Bowring (1792). After him are Ben Cross (1947), Cicely Saunders (1918), Henry Gray (1827), Max Mallowan (1904), Ian McDonald (1946), and Donald Maclean (1913).

Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Clarke Abel ranks 24Before him are Thomas Hodgkin (1798), Thomas Addison (1793), Robert Darwin (1766), Thomas Sydenham (1624), Lorna Wing (1928), and John Hunter (1728). After him are Cicely Saunders (1918), Henry Gray (1827), Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836), William Cullen (1710), William Bayliss (1860), and John Latham (1740).