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David Douglas

1799 - 1834

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David Douglas (25 June 1799 – 12 July 1834) was a Scottish botanist, best known as the namesake of the Douglas fir. He worked as a gardener, and explored the Scottish Highlands, North America, and Hawaii, where he died. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Douglas has received more than 52,308 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 19 in 2019). David Douglas is the 869th most popular biologist (down from 763rd in 2019), the 4,555th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,902nd in 2019) and the 141st most popular British Biologist.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, David Douglas ranks 869 out of 841Before him are Charles Sibley, Frank Chapman, Carl Fredrik Fallén, Carl Eduard Hellmayr, Charles B. Cory, and John Hopfield. After him are Charles Walter De Vis, Dukinfield Henry Scott, Georg Ossian Sars, John Belchier, William Yarrell, and Walter Buller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, David Douglas ranks 53Before him are David Don, František Čelakovský, William Rutter Dawes, Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, and Avdotia Istomina. After him are Samuel George Morton, Eliza Acton, Thomas Hood, Titian Peale, and Simon Cameron. Among people deceased in 1834, David Douglas ranks 38Before him are Alexius Frederick Christian, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, Infanta Maria da Assunção of Braganza, Jacques Labillardière, Jean Louis Marie Poiret, Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, and William H. Crawford. After him is William Wirt.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Douglas ranks 4,555 out of 7,765Before him are Pat Symonds (1953), David Hampshire (1917), Leeroy Thornhill (1968), Basil Dearden (1911), George Moorhouse (1901), and Chris Wolstenholme (1978). After him are Harry Golombek (1911), John Masefield (1878), Robert Smirke (1780), Thomas Baines (1820), Charles Walter De Vis (1829), and Marina Diamandis (1985).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, David Douglas ranks 141Before him are Prideaux John Selby (1788), Joseph Barcroft (1872), Mark Catesby (1683), Gilbert White (1720), Alister Hardy (1896), and George Montagu (1751). After him are Charles Walter De Vis (1829), Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854), William Yarrell (1784), Bryan Sykes (1947), Charles Tate Regan (1878), and Lancelot Hogben (1895).