BIOLOGIST

David Goodall

1914 - 2018

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David William Goodall (4 April 1914 – 10 May 2018) was an English-born Australian botanist and ecologist. He was influential in the early development of statistical methods in plant communities. He worked as researcher and professor in England, Australia, Ghana and the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Goodall has received more than 16,060 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). David Goodall is the 890th most popular biologist (down from 738th in 2019), the 4,335th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,695th in 2019) and the 135th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 52.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, David Goodall ranks 890 out of 1,097. Before him are Gaetano Savi, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw, Theobald Smith, Robert Weinberg, Dukinfield Henry Scott, and Richard Evans Schultes. After him are Charles Frédéric Girard, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky, Carl Fredrik Fallén, Peter Ascanius, Clinton Hart Merriam, and Yasutomi Nishizuka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, David Goodall ranks 328. Before him are Kaisa Parviainen, Thomas Watson Jr., Frankie Manning, Sueo Ōe, Mircea David, and Ersilio Tonini. After him are Harry Winter, Erling Evensen, Mario Luzi, Ivan Jazbinšek, Sylvi Saimo, and Heidi Kabel. Among people deceased in 2018, David Goodall ranks 403. Before him are Afonso Dhlakama, Tadeusz Kraus, Apisai Ielemia, Ricky Jay, Cliff Bourland, and Irina Beglyakova. After him are Kate Wilhelm, Alfredo del Águila, William Blum, Milunka Lazarević, Daniel Robin, and Joseph Polchinski.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Goodall ranks 4,335 out of 8,785. Before him are Frank Swift (1913), Norma Varden (1898), Johnny Marr (1963), Pino Palladino (1957), Ray Park (1974), and Jarvis Cocker (1963). After him are Sam Brown (1964), Amy Macdonald (1987), Terence Rattigan (1911), Euphemia de Ross (1333), A. V. Dicey (1835), and John Gardner (1926).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, David Goodall ranks 135. Before him are G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903), Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), Charles Tate Regan (1878), Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800), Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902), and Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854). After him are Francis Willughby (1635), Robert Morison (1620), William Yarrell (1784), Thomas Nuttall (1786), Ann Bishop (1899), and Mark Catesby (1683).

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