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Elizabeth Gertrude Britton

1858 - 1934

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Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (née Knight) (January 9, 1858 – February 25, 1934) was an American botanist, bryologist, and educator. She and her husband, Nathaniel Lord Britton, played a significant role in the fundraising and creation of the New York Botanical Garden. She was a co-founder of the precursor body to the American Bryological and Lichenological Society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elizabeth Gertrude Britton has received more than 44,229 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Elizabeth Gertrude Britton is the 594th most popular biologist (up from 674th in 2019), the 5,329th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,438th in 2019) and the 84th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton ranks 594 out of 1,097. Before her are Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan, Garrett Hardin, Jean-Étienne Guettard, Antoine Risso, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, and Euclides da Cunha. After her are Erwin Stresemann, Edouard Van Beneden, Carl Chun, Charles Antoine Lemaire, Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, and René Dubos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton ranks 97. Before her are Constance Lloyd, Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, Georgi Todorov, Alexandre Michon, Heinrich Zille, and Infanta Adelgundes, Duchess of Guimarães. After her are Oskar Minkowski, Carl Swartz, Edward M. House, Stoyan Danev, George Albert Boulenger, and Ferdinand Albin Pax. Among people deceased in 1934, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton ranks 106. Before her are Lucien Gaudin, Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten, Georgi Todorov, Kim Sowol, Edgar Jung, and Giovanni Brunero. After her are Surya Sen, Joachim Ringelnatz, Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Pyotr Chardynin, Oskar von Miller, and Mikhail Matyushin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton ranks 5,329 out of 20,380. Before her are Bobby Driscoll (1937), E. B. White (1899), Gary Chapman (1938), Titus Welliver (1962), Dakota Fanning (1994), and Kieran Culkin (1982). After her are Daniel Silva (1960), Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874), Billy Crudup (1968), Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919), Mike Mangini (1963), and Rodney Dangerfield (1921).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton ranks 84. Before her are Alice Hamilton (1869), Mary Agnes Chase (1869), Barry Commoner (1917), Sewall Wright (1889), Harold E. Varmus (1939), and Garrett Hardin (1915). After her are Jack Horner (1946), Alfred Sturtevant (1891), George C. Williams (1926), Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856), Charles David Keeling (1928), and John du Pont (1938).

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