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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 15,701 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. David Goodall is the 739th most popular biologist (down from 636th in 2019), the 3,703rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,120th in 2019) and the 107th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, David Goodall ranks 739 out of 841Before him are Jakob Emanuel Lange, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Hipólito Ruiz López, Thomas Hardwicke, Karl Moritz Schumann, and Daniel Oliver. After him are James Francis Stephens, Jules Verreaux, Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, Curt Backeberg, George Edwards, and Johann Jakob Heckel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, David Goodall ranks 266Before him are Adrien Rommel, Evelyn Furtsch, Jan de Hartog, Élie Bayol, Emmanuel Roblès, and Renato Olmi. After him are Julio Caro Baroja, Théo Lefèvre, Michael Grant, Carlos Menditeguy, Amelia Bence, and Martí de Riquer i Morera. Among people deceased in 2018, David Goodall ranks 315Before him are Barys Kit, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Sergio Gonella, Per Ahlmark, John Miles, and Susan Anspach. After him are Kazimierz Kutz, Anne Treisman, Antonio Mercero, Hal Greer, Paddy Ashdown, and Luigi Radice.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Goodall ranks 3,703 out of 7,765Before him are Malcolm Muggeridge (1903), John Major (1467), Hugh Clapperton (1788), Curt Smith (1961), Ray Park (1974), and Mick Avory (1944). After him are James Francis Stephens (1792), Georges Passerieu (1885), Patricia Hayes (1909), Martin Shaw (1945), Sophie Okonedo (1968), and John Grierson (1898).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, David Goodall ranks 107Before him are John Gerard (1545), Francis Willughby (1635), Richard Thomas Lowe (1802), James Sowerby (1757), D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860), and Daniel Oliver (1830). After him are James Francis Stephens (1792), George Edwards (1694), G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903), Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855), Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811), and Nigel Marven (1960).