BIOLOGIST

Eugene Odum

1913 - 2002

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Eugene Pleasants Odum (September 17, 1913 – August 10, 2002) was an American biologist at the University of Georgia known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology. He and his brother Howard T. Odum wrote the popular ecology textbook, Fundamentals of Ecology (1953). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugene Odum has received more than 168,123 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Eugene Odum is the 455th most popular biologist (down from 316th in 2019), the 4,140th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,258th in 2019) and the 68th most popular American Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Eugene Odums by language

Over the past year Eugene Odum has had the most page views in the with 23,758 views, followed by Spanish (11,720), and Russian (4,577). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Portuguese (72.41%), Esperanto (68.79%), and Catalan (47.14%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Eugene Odum ranks 455 out of 1,097. Before him are Heinrich Kuhl, Georg August Goldfuss, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Francisco J. Ayala, Gabriel Bibron, and Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton. After him are Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, Wilhelm Roux, Carl Meissner, June Almeida, and Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Eugene Odum ranks 162. Before him are Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz, Maria Tănase, John Garfield, Samuel Eilenberg, Gisela Mauermayer, and Renato Castellani. After him are Lewis A. Coser, Salvador Espriu, John Kitzmiller, Reinhard Hardegen, Sonja Wigert, and Sourou-Migan Apithy. Among people deceased in 2002, Eugene Odum ranks 147. Before him are Vitaly Solomin, Arno Peters, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Masakatsu Miyamoto, Nikolay Rukavishnikov, and Héctor Trujillo. After him are Anatoli Bashashkin, Eddie Bracken, Julio Pérez, Marion Dönhoff, Lolita Torres, and Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eugene Odum ranks 4,140 out of 20,380. Before him are Sammy Gravano (1945), Floyd Council (1911), Edward Bellamy (1850), Kim Darby (1947), John Petrucci (1967), and Andreas Katsulas (1946). After him are Edward R. Murrow (1908), Lucian Pulvermacher (1918), Gregory Benford (1941), Alan Sokal (1955), Nick Cravat (1912), and Milt Jackson (1923).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Eugene Odum ranks 68. Before him are Andrew Fire (1959), Joel Asaph Allen (1838), Robert Gallo (1937), Brian Kobilka (1955), Martha Chase (1927), and Luther Burbank (1849). After him are Robert Sapolsky (1957), Aldo Leopold (1887), Elmer Drew Merrill (1876), Francis Collins (1950), Theodore Gill (1837), and Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835).

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