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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 40,216 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 19 in 2019). David Don is the 691st most popular biologist (down from 625th in 2019), the 3,472nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,057th in 2019) and the 91st most popular British Biologist.

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  • 40k

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  • 46.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, David Don ranks 691 out of 841. Before him are John Richardson, Antoine Risso, Carl Chun, William Hemsley, Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet, and William Sherard. After him are Élie-Abel Carrière, Johann Gerhard König, Jacob Bjerknes, Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt, Miles Joseph Berkeley, and Theobald Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, David Don ranks 47. Before him are Fyodor Bruni, Edward Belcher, Jean Baptiste Boisduval, Heinrich von Kittlitz, James Prinsep, and Heinrich von Gagern. After him are František Čelakovský, William Rutter Dawes, Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Avdotia Istomina, and David Douglas. Among people deceased in 1841, David Don ranks 37. Before him are Alexander Burnes, Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg, Peter Andreas Heiberg, Luis Eduardo Pérez, David Wilkie, and Louis de Freycinet. After him are Jørgen Jørgensen, Astley Cooper, Princess Amalie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, John Forsyth, and Francis Leggatt Chantrey.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Don ranks 3,472 out of 7,765. Before him are Thomas Linley the younger (1756), Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928), Luke Foxe (1586), Blanche Bingley (1863), William Sherard (1659), and Octavia Hill (1838). After him are Annie S. D. Maunder (1868), Barry Foster (1931), Karen Spärck Jones (1935), Natalia Tena (1984), John Mayow (1640), and Peter Blake (1932).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, David Don ranks 91. Before him are Andrew Smith (1797), Edward Newton (1832), Edward Blyth (1810), John Richardson (1787), William Hemsley (1843), and William Sherard (1659). After him are Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803), Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809), William Elford Leach (1791), N. E. Brown (1849), William Thomas Blanford (1832), and Ray Lankester (1847).

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