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Dian Fossey

1932 - 1985

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Dian Fossey ( dy-AN; January 16, 1932 – c. December 26, 1985) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her murder in 1985. She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey. Gorillas in the Mist, a book published two years before her death, is Fossey's account of her scientific study of the gorillas at Karisoke Research Center and prior career. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dian Fossey has received more than 4,892,016 page views. Her biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Dian Fossey is the 37th most popular biologist (down from 30th in 2019), the 490th most popular biography from United States (down from 379th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Biologist.

Dian Fossey was an American zoologist who studied gorillas in the mountain forests of Rwanda. She is most famous for her work in studying and protecting the mountain gorillas in Rwanda.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Dian Fossey ranks 37 out of 1,097. Before her are Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Barbara McClintock, Albrecht Kossel, Charles Richet, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, and Harald zur Hausen. After her are Karl von Frisch, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Vladimir Vernadsky, Karl Ernst von Baer, and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Dian Fossey ranks 22. Before her are Fernando Botero, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Víctor Jara, Anouk Aimée, Sylvia Plath, and François Englert. After her are Roh Tae-woo, Glenn Gould, Anthony Perkins, Anatoliy Solovianenko, Carlos Saura, and Camilo Cienfuegos. Among people deceased in 1985, Dian Fossey ranks 16. Before her are Orson Welles, László Bíró, Jean Dubuffet, Rock Hudson, Simon Kuznets, and Charles Francis Richter. After her are Lon Nol, Philip Larkin, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Anne Baxter, Ferhat Abbas, and John Franklin Enders.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dian Fossey ranks 490 out of 20,380. Before her are George Foreman (1949), John Malkovich (1953), Sidney Poitier (1927), Buffalo Bill (1846), Nick Nolte (1941), and Robert Kiyosaki (1947). After her are Faye Dunaway (1941), Reese Witherspoon (1976), James Coburn (1928), Eugene O'Neill (1888), Ray Kroc (1902), and Patricia Highsmith (1921).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Dian Fossey ranks 5. Before her are James Watson (1928), Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866), Rachel Carson (1907), and Barbara McClintock (1902). After her are Sylvia Earle (1935), George Beadle (1903), Irwin Rose (1926), Linda B. Buck (1947), Stanley B. Prusiner (1942), Hermann Joseph Muller (1890), and John B. Calhoun (1917).

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