BIOLOGIST

Francis Darwin

1848 - 1925

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Sir Francis Darwin (16 August 1848 – 19 September 1925) was a British botanist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francis Darwin has received more than 214,011 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Francis Darwin is the 268th most popular biologist (up from 364th in 2019), the 1,514th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,085th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular British Biologist.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Francis Darwin ranks 268 out of 1,097Before him are James Bond, John Lindley, Henrietta Lacks, Erik Pontoppidan, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, and Eric F. Wieschaus. After him are David Julius, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Christen C. Raunkiær, Peter Forsskål, Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, and Jérôme Lejeune.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Francis Darwin ranks 48Before him are Lothar von Trotha, Auguste Forel, Maximilian von Prittwitz, Hermann von Eichhorn, Raja Ravi Varma, and Kate Sheppard. After him are Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Henri Duparc, Anatoly Stessel, Helen Allingham, Georges Ohnet, and Viktor Meyer. Among people deceased in 1925, Francis Darwin ranks 58Before him are Khải Định, René Viviani, Moritz Moszkowski, Cyril Genik, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, and Thomas R. Marshall. After him are Sidney Reilly, Sheikh Said, Princess Françoise of Orléans, Chittaranjan Das, Louis Feuillade, and Hidesaburō Ueno.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Francis Darwin ranks 1,514 out of 8,785Before him are Edward the Exile (1016), Bill Ward (1948), Henry Sidgwick (1838), William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708), Lilian, Princess of Réthy (1916), and Catherine Eddowes (1842). After him are Eddie Redmayne (1982), William Parry (1790), Henry Gray (1827), Robert Powell (1944), Oswald of Northumbria (604), and Rosamund Pike (1979).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Francis Darwin ranks 43Before him are Michael Houghton (1949), Nehemiah Grew (1641), William Aiton (1731), Richard Henderson (1945), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), and John Lindley (1799). After him are Jack W. Szostak (1952), John Maynard Smith (1920), George Bentham (1800), Patrick Geddes (1854), John Sulston (1942), and Rupert Sheldrake (1942).