BIOLOGIST

Edward Lhuyd

1660 - 1709

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Edward Lhuyd (1660 – 30 June 1709), also known as Edward Lhwyd and by other spellings, was a Welsh naturalist, botanist, herbalist, alchemist, scientist, linguist, geographer, and antiquary. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Lhuyd has received more than 115,181 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Lhuyd is the 957th most popular biologist (down from 906th in 2019), the 4,847th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,919th in 2019) and the 157th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Edward Lhuyd ranks 957 out of 1,097. Before him are Vladimir Sukachev, François Gagnepain, Alister Hardy, Maxwell T. Masters, William T. Stearn, and Charles Sibley. After him are Ivan Lepyokhin, Édouard Louis Trouessart, Janet Rowley, John Hutton Balfour, Richard Meinertzhagen, and Aimée Antoinette Camus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1660, Edward Lhuyd ranks 25. Before him are Jakob Prandtauer, Peter Schenk the Elder, Grace Sherwood, Francis Hauksbee, Gavriil Golovkin, and Jeanne Dumée.  Among people deceased in 1709, Edward Lhuyd ranks 23. Before him are Abraham a Sancta Clara, Alvise II Mocenigo, Jean-François Regnard, Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Nicola Saggio, and William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Lhuyd ranks 4,847 out of 8,785. Before him are Joe Spence (1898), Basil Dearden (1911), Lawrence Stone (1919), Anna Friel (1976), Jonathan Penrose (1933), and Peter Sallis (1921). After him are Ray Kennedy (1951), Mark Mazower (1958), Nick Land (1962), Michael Winterbottom (1961), Graeme Obree (1965), and Charles Rosher (1885).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Edward Lhuyd ranks 157. Before him are Charles Walter De Vis (1829), Irene Manton (1904), Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811), Alister Hardy (1896), Maxwell T. Masters (1833), and William T. Stearn (1911). After him are John Hutton Balfour (1808), Richard Meinertzhagen (1878), Archibald Menzies (1754), Sarah Gilbert (1962), Gilbert White (1720), and Hugh Huxley (1924).

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