1860 - 1948
Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE (2 May 1860 – 21 June 1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar. He was a pioneer of mathematical and theoretical biology, travelled on expeditions to the Bering Strait and held the position of Professor of Natural History at University College, Dundee for 32 years, then at St Andrews for 31 years. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson has received more than 202,730 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson is the 734th most popular biologist, the 3,671st most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 105th most popular British Biologist.
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Among biologists, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ranks 734 out of 841. Before him are Karl Hugo Strunz, Francis Willughby, Richard Thomas Lowe, Johann Christoph Wendland, James Sowerby, and Jakob Emanuel Lange. After him are Hipólito Ruiz López, Thomas Hardwicke, Karl Moritz Schumann, Daniel Oliver, David Goodall, and James Francis Stephens.
1910 - 2006
HPI: 46.03
Rank: 728
1635 - 1672
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 729
1802 - 1874
HPI: 45.95
Rank: 730
1755 - 1828
HPI: 45.92
Rank: 731
1757 - 1822
HPI: 45.86
Rank: 732
1864 - 1941
HPI: 45.86
Rank: 733
1860 - 1948
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 734
1754 - 1816
HPI: 45.84
Rank: 735
1755 - 1835
HPI: 45.81
Rank: 736
1851 - 1904
HPI: 45.81
Rank: 737
1830 - 1916
HPI: 45.79
Rank: 738
1914 - 2018
HPI: 45.75
Rank: 739
1792 - 1852
HPI: 45.75
Rank: 740
Among people born in 1860, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ranks 112. Before him are Jan Kasprowicz, Jacques Sautereau, Jackson Showalter, Ferenc Kemény, Alexey Favorsky, and Pieter Jelles Troelstra. After him are Antônio Parreiras, Robert Bacon, Ferdinand Boberg, Gabriele Possanner, Otto Liebe, and Frederick Rolfe. Among people deceased in 1948, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ranks 142. Before him are Bevil Rudd, Mickey Marcus, Gustav Schuft, Manuel Arce y Ochotorena, Pencho Zlatev, and Malcolm Campbell. After him are Charles A. Beard, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Claude McKay, Edgar Kennedy, Frank Benford, and Joseph Wedderburn.
1860 - 1926
HPI: 46.51
Rank: 106
1860 - 1936
HPI: 46.43
Rank: 107
1860 - 1935
HPI: 46.30
Rank: 108
1860 - 1944
HPI: 46.27
Rank: 109
1860 - 1945
HPI: 46.25
Rank: 110
1860 - 1930
HPI: 46.23
Rank: 111
1860 - 1948
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 112
1860 - 1937
HPI: 45.78
Rank: 113
1860 - 1919
HPI: 45.38
Rank: 114
1860 - 1946
HPI: 45.25
Rank: 115
1860 - 1940
HPI: 45.13
Rank: 116
1860 - 1929
HPI: 44.74
Rank: 117
1860 - 1913
HPI: 44.49
Rank: 118
1894 - 1948
HPI: 46.34
Rank: 136
1901 - 1948
HPI: 46.31
Rank: 137
1878 - 1948
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 138
1879 - 1948
HPI: 46.04
Rank: 139
1883 - 1948
HPI: 46.04
Rank: 140
1885 - 1948
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 141
1860 - 1948
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 142
1874 - 1948
HPI: 44.75
Rank: 143
1914 - 1948
HPI: 44.74
Rank: 144
1889 - 1948
HPI: 44.60
Rank: 145
1890 - 1948
HPI: 44.32
Rank: 146
1883 - 1948
HPI: 44.21
Rank: 147
1882 - 1948
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 148
Among people born in United Kingdom, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ranks 3,671 out of 7,765. Before him are Patrick Malahide (1945), Henry Lincoln (1930), James Sowerby (1757), E. T. Whittaker (1873), Emerald Fennell (1985), and Dave Gibbons (1949). After him are Simone Perrotta (1977), Paul Kossoff (1950), Doug Bradley (1954), Reginald Wingate (1861), Imogen Heap (1977), and Ranulph Fiennes (1944).
1945 - Present
HPI: 45.86
Rank: 3,665
1930 - 2022
HPI: 45.86
Rank: 3,666
1757 - 1822
HPI: 45.86
Rank: 3,667
1873 - 1956
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 3,668
1985 - Present
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 3,669
1949 - Present
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 3,670
1860 - 1948
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 3,671
1977 - Present
HPI: 45.84
Rank: 3,672
1950 - 1976
HPI: 45.84
Rank: 3,673
1954 - Present
HPI: 45.83
Rank: 3,674
1861 - 1953
HPI: 45.82
Rank: 3,675
1977 - Present
HPI: 45.82
Rank: 3,676
1944 - Present
HPI: 45.82
Rank: 3,677
Among biologists born in United Kingdom, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ranks 105. Before him are Mary F. Lyon (1925), Thomas Bell (1792), John Gerard (1545), Francis Willughby (1635), Richard Thomas Lowe (1802), and James Sowerby (1757). After him are Daniel Oliver (1830), David Goodall (1914), James Francis Stephens (1792), George Edwards (1694), G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903), and Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855).
1925 - 2014
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 99
1792 - 1880
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 100
1545 - 1612
HPI: 46.03
Rank: 101
1635 - 1672
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 102
1802 - 1874
HPI: 45.95
Rank: 103
1757 - 1822
HPI: 45.86
Rank: 104
1860 - 1948
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 105
1830 - 1916
HPI: 45.79
Rank: 106
1914 - 2018
HPI: 45.75
Rank: 107
1792 - 1852
HPI: 45.75
Rank: 108
1694 - 1773
HPI: 45.70
Rank: 109
1903 - 1991
HPI: 45.68
Rank: 110
1855 - 1956
HPI: 45.63
Rank: 111