BIOLOGIST

David Prain

1857 - 1944

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Sir David Prain (11 July 1857 – 16 March 1944) was a Scottish botanist who worked in India at the Calcutta Botanical Garden and went on to become Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Prain has received more than 27,126 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. David Prain is the 1,028th most popular biologist, the 5,688th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 173rd most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, David Prain ranks 1,028 out of 1,097Before him are Charles Sprague Sargent, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Albert Charles Smith, Walter Buller, Ilkka Hanski, and Karl Shuker. After him are Elmer McCollum, Henry Weed Fowler, Anthony R. Hunter, Outram Bangs, Aristid Lindenmayer, and Austin Stevens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, David Prain ranks 131Before him are Edward Henry Potthast, John Joly, Auguste Serrurier, Max Weiss, Michael Pedersen Friis, and Arthur Wesley Dow. After him are Walter Rutherford, Charles B. Cory, Rudolf Thurneysen, Gertrude Atherton, Alice Stone Blackwell, and Alfred Lyttelton. Among people deceased in 1944, David Prain ranks 307Before him are Perry McGillivray, George B. Seitz, Eugen Burg, Walter Middelberg, Franz Berghammer, and Siegfried Powolny. After him are Alfred Schmalzer, Ernest Townsend, Robert Frazer, Mike Bookie, Robert Curry, and Laird Cregar.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Prain ranks 5,688 out of 8,785Before him are Darren Fletcher (1984), Tom Bridger (1934), Aimee Lou Wood (1995), Richard Seddon (1845), Karl Shuker (1959), and Saunders Lewis (1893). After him are Bert Williams (1920), Kenneth Richmond (1926), Matt Lucas (1974), Phoebe Fox (1987), Tim Renwick (1949), and Kathleen Byron (1921).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, David Prain ranks 173Before him are Annie Lorrain Smith (1854), John Claudius Loudon (1783), Prideaux John Selby (1788), Arthur Gardiner Butler (1844), Alexander Wilson (1766), and Karl Shuker (1959). After him are Anthony R. Hunter (1943), David Lack (1910), Ethelwynn Trewavas (1900), William Forsell Kirby (1844), Francis Maitland Balfour (1851), and Francis Walker (1809).