BIOLOGIST

Eugenie Clark

1922 - 2015

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Eugenie Clark (May 4, 1922 – February 25, 2015), popularly known as The Shark Lady, was an American ichthyologist known for both her research on shark behavior and her study of fish in the order Tetraodontiformes. Clark was a pioneer in the field of scuba diving for research purposes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugenie Clark has received more than 354,399 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Eugenie Clark is the 1,060th most popular biologist (down from 929th in 2019), the 13,536th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,343rd in 2019) and the 177th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Eugenie Clark ranks 1,060 out of 1,097Before her are Annie Montague Alexander, Philip J. Currie, Storrs L. Olson, Suzanne Cory, Ronald M. Evans, and Frederic Moore. After her are Edward Bagnall Poulton, Neil Shubin, Susan Lindquist, Frederick DuCane Godman, Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, and Huda Zoghbi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Eugenie Clark ranks 450Before her are Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Francis Pym, Fortune Gordien, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Jesús Iglesias, and G. N. Ramachandran. After her are Lamont Johnson, Kay Starr, Len Lesser, Bernard Bailyn, Mavis Gallant, and Syd Owen. Among people deceased in 2015, Eugenie Clark ranks 515Before her are George Clayton Johnson, Janaki Ballabh Patnaik, Walter Browne, Jayne Meadows, Charles Correa, and Taylor Negron. After her are Jonathan Crombie, Aruna Shanbaug case, Alexander Melentyev, Jimmy Hill, Sinan Şamil Sam, and Pedro Zerolo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eugenie Clark ranks 13,536 out of 20,380Before her are James Clapper (1941), Stepin Fetchit (1902), Donald Howard Menzel (1901), Sidney Drell (1926), Troy Davis (1968), and Guy Clark (1941). After her are Paul Herman (1946), Mark Aguirre (1959), Abby Wambach (1980), Jack Webb (1920), Julianne Phillips (1960), and Jim Fuchs (1927).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Eugenie Clark ranks 177Before her are Rita R. Colwell (1934), Joanne Chory (1955), Patricia Goldman-Rakic (1937), Annie Montague Alexander (1867), Storrs L. Olson (1944), and Ronald M. Evans (1949). After her are Neil Shubin (1960), Susan Lindquist (1949), Joan A. Steitz (1941), Albert William Herre (1868), Stephen Schneider (1945), and Jerry Coyne (1949).