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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 40,703 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Elizabeth Gertrude Britton is the 675th most popular biologist (up from 787th in 2019), the 6,451st most popular biography from United States (up from 8,929th in 2019) and the 97th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton ranks 675 out of 841Before her are Alfred G. Knudson, David Ho, Edward Blyth, Hans von Berlepsch, Marie-Anne Libert, and Charles Antoine Lemaire. After her are Ernst Hartert, Émile Oustalet, Otto Stapf, Charles Alexandre Lesueur, Alexander Agassiz, and Nicolaus Michael Oppel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton ranks 103Before her are Georges Courteline, Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Carl Swartz, Henry Scott Tuke, Ferdinand Albin Pax, and Stoyan Danev. After her are Eva Nansen, May Robson, John Russell, Juan Luis Sanfuentes, Rosa Mayreder, and Take Ionescu. Among people deceased in 1934, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton ranks 111Before her are Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Gustave Lanson, Oskar von Miller, Caleb Bradham, Fritz Graebner, and Nathaniel Lord Britton. After her are Willem Kes, Sergey Oldenburg, Eduard Bagritsky, Manuel Márquez Sterling, Theobald Smith, and Lou Tellegen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton ranks 6,451 out of 18,182Before her are Rockmond Dunbar (1974), Tera Patrick (1976), Raymond J. Barry (1939), Robert S. Langer (1948), Bob Welch (1945), and David A. R. White (1970). After her are Todd Haynes (1961), David Smith (1906), Pia Zadora (1953), Oliver Hazard Perry (1785), Henry Halleck (1815), and Eugene McCarthy (1916).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton ranks 97Before her are George Newbold Lawrence (1806), Benjamin Smith Barton (1766), Alice Hamilton (1869), Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859), Joseph Leidy (1823), and Alfred G. Knudson (1922). After her are Theobald Smith (1859), Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835), Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890), Robert Trivers (1943), Albert Charles Smith (1906), and Mary-Claire King (1946).