BIOLOGIST

David Don

1799 - 1841

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David Don (21 December 1799 – 15 December 1841) was a Scottish botanist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Don has received more than 43,127 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). David Don is the 641st most popular biologist (up from 690th in 2019), the 3,106th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,464th in 2019) and the 84th most popular British Biologist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, David Don ranks 641 out of 1,097Before him are Nikolay Drozdov, Volcher Coiter, Anna Russell, Michel Félix Dunal, Alphonse Milne-Edwards, and William Withering. After him are Charles David Keeling, Everard Home, Karl Hugo Strunz, Petter Adolf Karsten, Élie-Abel Carrière, and Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, David Don ranks 44Before him are Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, Manuel Bulnes, Joachim Barrande, Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, Heinrich von Kittlitz, and Imre Frivaldszky. After him are Fyodor Bruni, Heinrich von Gagern, Amos Bronson Alcott, Frederick Catherwood, William Rutter Dawes, and James Prinsep. Among people deceased in 1841, David Don ranks 37Before him are Peter Andreas Heiberg, Louis de Freycinet, Ignaz von Seyfried, Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg, Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, and Jean Victoir Audouin. After him are Jørgen Jørgensen, Luis Eduardo Pérez, David Wilkie, John Forsyth, Alexander Shishkov, and Alexander Burnes.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Don ranks 3,106 out of 8,785Before him are William Withering (1741), Geoff Duke (1923), Dave Holland (1948), Andrew Marvell (1621), James Arthur (1988), and Tom Phillips (1888). After him are Dora Carrington (1893), Duncan Grant (1885), Anna Massey (1937), William Thoms (1803), Charles Townshend (1725), and Florence Green (1901).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, David Don ranks 84Before him are Richard Lydekker (1849), Philip Henry Gosse (1810), James Francis Stephens (1792), Ray Lankester (1847), Anna Russell (1807), and William Withering (1741). After him are Everard Home (1756), John Sims (1749), William Roxburgh (1751), Reginald Punnett (1875), N. E. Brown (1849), and Keith Campbell (1954).