1815 - 1854
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 84,317 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Edward Forbes is the 650th most popular biologist (down from 536th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Isle of Man (down from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Biologist.
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Among biologists, Edward Forbes ranks 650 out of 841. Before him are Emmanuel Drake del Castillo, Wilhelm Hemprich, Gabriel Bibron, Rolf Singer, Johann Amman, and Alice Hamilton. After him are Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Lucas Alamán, Joseph Rock, Mary Elizabeth Barber, and Eduard Friedrich Poeppig.
1855 - 1904
HPI: 47.31
Rank: 644
1796 - 1825
HPI: 47.29
Rank: 645
1805 - 1848
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 646
1906 - 1994
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 647
1707 - 1741
HPI: 47.25
Rank: 648
1869 - 1970
HPI: 47.20
Rank: 649
1815 - 1854
HPI: 47.13
Rank: 650
1794 - 1866
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 651
1859 - 1934
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 652
1792 - 1853
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 653
1884 - 1962
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 654
1818 - 1899
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 655
1798 - 1868
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 656
Among people born in 1815, Edward Forbes ranks 65. Before him are Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov, Adolf Friedrich von Schack, Emanuel Geibel, Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg, James B. Francis, and Halfdan Kjerulf. After him are Paul Rudolf von Bilguer, Otto von Böhtlingk, Marguerite Bays, Henry Halleck, James Legge, and Princess Amalie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. Among people deceased in 1854, Edward Forbes ranks 50. Before him are Carl Joseph Begas, Auguste of Anhalt-Dessau, Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Philip Barker-Webb, José María Vargas, and Émile Souvestre. After him are Pedro María de Anaya, Juan Mora Fernández, Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, Robert Jameson, Nathaniel Wallich, and Josipina Turnograjska.
1815 - 1869
HPI: 47.98
Rank: 59
1815 - 1894
HPI: 47.86
Rank: 60
1815 - 1884
HPI: 47.65
Rank: 61
1815 - 1892
HPI: 47.61
Rank: 62
1815 - 1892
HPI: 47.61
Rank: 63
1815 - 1868
HPI: 47.59
Rank: 64
1815 - 1854
HPI: 47.13
Rank: 65
1815 - 1840
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 66
1815 - 1904
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 67
1815 - 1879
HPI: 46.80
Rank: 68
1815 - 1872
HPI: 46.79
Rank: 69
1815 - 1897
HPI: 46.17
Rank: 70
1815 - 1841
HPI: 45.94
Rank: 71
1794 - 1854
HPI: 48.57
Rank: 44
1793 - 1854
HPI: 48.43
Rank: 45
1797 - 1854
HPI: 47.96
Rank: 46
1793 - 1854
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 47
1786 - 1854
HPI: 47.34
Rank: 48
1806 - 1854
HPI: 47.18
Rank: 49
1815 - 1854
HPI: 47.13
Rank: 50
1795 - 1854
HPI: 46.13
Rank: 51
1784 - 1854
HPI: 45.28
Rank: 52
1768 - 1854
HPI: 44.98
Rank: 53
1774 - 1854
HPI: 44.32
Rank: 54
1786 - 1854
HPI: 44.09
Rank: 55
1833 - 1854
HPI: 43.03
Rank: 56
Among people born in Isle of Man, Edward Forbes ranks 5 out of 11. Before him are Maurice Gibb (1949), Barry Gibb (1946), Robin Gibb (1949), and Ned Maddrell (1877). After him are Mark Cavendish (1985), Kieran Tierney (1997), Samantha Barks (1990), Jamie Blackley (1991), Amy Jackson (1991), and Peter Kennaugh (1989).
1949 - 2003
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 1
1946 - Present
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 2
1949 - 2012
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 3
1877 - 1974
HPI: 49.18
Rank: 4
1815 - 1854
HPI: 47.13
Rank: 5
1985 - Present
HPI: 41.06
Rank: 6
1997 - Present
HPI: 33.96
Rank: 7
1990 - Present
HPI: 28.88
Rank: 8
1991 - Present
HPI: 24.39
Rank: 9
1991 - Present
HPI: 24.19
Rank: 10
1989 - Present
HPI: 23.06
Rank: 11
Among biologists born in Isle of Man, Edward Forbes ranks 1.