BIOLOGIST

Edward Forbes

1815 - 1854

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Edward Forbes FRS, FGS (12 February 1815 – 18 November 1854) was a Manx naturalist. In 1846, he proposed that the distributions of montane plants and animals had been compressed downslope, and some oceanic islands connected to the mainland, during the recent ice age. This mechanism, which was the first natural explanation to explain the distributions of the same species on now-isolated islands and mountain tops, was discovered independently by Charles Darwin, who credited Forbes with the idea. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Forbes has received more than 90,029 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Edward Forbes is the 556th most popular biologist (up from 649th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Isle of Man (up from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Edward Forbes ranks 556 out of 1,097. Before him are Alice Hamilton, Otto Kuntze, Augustin Saint-Hilaire, Salomon Müller, Johann Gerhard König, and Oscar Hertwig. After him are Andrew Smith, Johannes Burman, Mary Agnes Chase, Karl Alfred von Zittel, Edward Turner Bennett, and Barry Commoner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Edward Forbes ranks 56. Before him are Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina, Aleksandr Baryatinsky, James B. Francis, Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg, and Alexander von Keyserling. After him are Eduard August von Regel, Emanuel Geibel, Henry Halleck, Pavel Fedotov, Halfdan Kjerulf, and James Legge. Among people deceased in 1854, Edward Forbes ranks 45. Before him are Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov, Caroline of Hesse-Homburg, José Joaquín Prieto, Jean Coralli, Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, and Anton Pann. After him are Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, José María Vargas, Karl Ludwig von Haller, Angelo Mai, Carl Joseph Begas, and Carl Gustaf Mannerheim.

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In Isle of Man

Among people born in Isle of Man, Edward Forbes ranks 4 out of 14. Before him are Maurice Gibb (1949), Robin Gibb (1949), and Barry Gibb (1946). After him are Ned Maddrell (1877), Rhodri the Great (820), Mark Cavendish (1985), Elizabeth Holloway Marston (1893), Kieran Tierney (1997), Joe Locke (2003), Amy Jackson (1991), and Samantha Barks (1990).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Isle of Man

Among biologists born in Isle of Man, Edward Forbes ranks 1. 

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