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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 331,188 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Eugenie Clark is the 930th most popular biologist (down from 827th in 2019), the 11,369th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,084th in 2019) and the 146th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 17

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  • 3.31

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Eugenie Clark ranks 930 out of 841Before her are Wim Crusio, Anthony R. Hunter, Norman I. Platnick, Peter Piot, Stanislas Dehaene, and Francis Maitland Balfour. After her are Paul Sereno, Gaetano Savi, Karl Shuker, Elliott Coues, George Don, and Philippa Marrack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Eugenie Clark ranks 385Before her are Helen Gurley Brown, Billy Liddell, Emil Wolf, Len Lesser, Mavis Gallant, and Edwin Thompson Jaynes. After her are Audrey Meadows, Jean Porter, Herb McKenley, Kathleen Booth, Herbert Goldstein, and Bill Macy. Among people deceased in 2015, Eugenie Clark ranks 442Before her are Brian Friel, Jihadi John, Denis Healey, Hitoshi Saito, Ron Springett, and Gene Fullmer. After her are Holly Woodlawn, Peter Westbury, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Ian Murdock, Mel Daniels, and Andraé Crouch.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eugenie Clark ranks 11,369 out of 18,182Before her are Richard G. Hovannisian (1932), Bill Gosper (1943), Edie Brickell (1966), Jim Fuchs (1927), Joan Marsh (1914), and Patrick Schwarzenegger (1993). After her are Monica Raymund (1986), Jon Oliva (1959), David Henrie (1989), Mary Wells (1943), Danny Ainge (1959), and Gail Ann Dorsey (1962).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Eugenie Clark ranks 146Before her are Alice Catherine Evans (1881), William Murrill (1869), John Bartram (1699), Jessica Meir (1977), Timothy Ray Brown (1966), and Norman I. Platnick (1951). After her are Paul Sereno (1957), Elliott Coues (1842), Ben Barres (1954), Amos Eaton (1776), Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey (1863), and William Healey Dall (1845).