BIOLOGIST

Elmer Drew Merrill

1876 - 1956

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Elmer Drew "E. D." Merrill (October 15, 1876 – February 25, 1956) was an American botanist and taxonomist. He spent more than twenty years in the Philippines where he became a recognized authority on the flora of the Asia-Pacific region. Through the course of his career he authored nearly 500 publications, described approximately 3,000 new plant species, and amassed over one million herbarium specimens. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elmer Drew Merrill has received more than 43,691 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Elmer Drew Merrill is the 493rd most popular biologist (up from 622nd in 2019), the 4,422nd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,932nd in 2019) and the 71st most popular American Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 44k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Elmer Drew Merrill has had the most page views in the with 4,704 views, followed by Chinese (1,858), and Spanish (1,239). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Vietnamese (137.82%), Ilocano (21.68%), and Indonesian (20.38%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Elmer Drew Merrill ranks 493 out of 1,097. Before him are Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, Bertha Lutz, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Johann Georg Wagler, and Ardem Patapoutian. After him are Moritz Wagner, Wilhelm Pfeffer, Charles De Geer, George Prideaux Robert Harris, Jules Émile Planchon, and Karl Friedrich von Gaertner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Elmer Drew Merrill ranks 106. Before him are Safiya Zaghloul, Bart van der Leck, Leopold von Wiese, Konstantinos Demertzis, Rosalia Zemlyachka, and Walter Tewksbury. After him are Óscar R. Benavides, Heinrich Tessenow, Constantin von Economo, Rupert Mayer, Aaron Aaronsohn, and Maurice Tourneur. Among people deceased in 1956, Elmer Drew Merrill ranks 115. Before him are Jean Hersholt, Vladimir Filatov, Corrado Alvaro, Tommy Dorsey, Mikhail Tereshchenko, and Ágnes Esterházy. After him are Helmer Hanssen, Jehanne D'Alcy, Henri Callot, Johannes Jørgensen, Lewis Terman, and Navvab Safavi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elmer Drew Merrill ranks 4,422 out of 20,380. Before him are Peter Straub (1943), Arthur O'Connell (1908), Cat Power (1972), Mercedes de Acosta (1892), John Finn (1952), and Claire Danes (1979). After him are W. Averell Harriman (1891), Billie Burke (1884), Mayim Bialik (1975), Bell hooks (1952), Alan Wilson (1943), and Bud Abbott (1897).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Elmer Drew Merrill ranks 71. Before him are Brian Kobilka (1955), Martha Chase (1927), Luther Burbank (1849), Eugene Odum (1913), Robert Sapolsky (1957), and Aldo Leopold (1887). After him are Francis Collins (1950), Theodore Gill (1837), Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835), Arthur Cronquist (1919), Frederic Clements (1874), and Craig Mello (1960).

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