BIOLOGIST

George Ord

1781 - 1866

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George Ord, Jr. (March 4, 1781 – January 24, 1866) was an American zoologist who specialized in North American ornithology and mammalogy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Ord has received more than 45,457 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). George Ord is the 331st most popular biologist (up from 835th in 2019), the 3,045th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,408th in 2019) and the 58th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 54.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, George Ord ranks 331 out of 1,097. Before him are Armen Takhtajan, Erich von Tschermak, Philibert Commerson, Auguste Chevalier, Alexander von Nordmann, and Leizu. After him are Hermann Burmeister, Motoo Kimura, Craig Venter, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, Esther Lederberg, and Jacob Christian Schäffer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, George Ord ranks 25. Before him are Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este, Johann Baptist von Spix, Andrés Bello, Swaminarayan, Adolphe Marbot, and Friedrich von Berchtold. After him are Valentín Gómez Farías, Louis-Mathieu Molé, John Walker, George Dawe, François Habeneck, and Christian von Steven. Among people deceased in 1866, George Ord ranks 19. Before him are Paul Gavarni, Thomas Hodgkin, Rikard Nordraak, Winfield Scott, Alexander von Nordmann, and Madame Clicquot Ponsardin. After him are Massimo d'Azeglio, Nadezhda Durova, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky, and Luigi Carlo Farini.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Ord ranks 3,045 out of 20,380. Before him are Curtis Mayfield (1942), Dan Castellaneta (1957), Louis Gossett Jr. (1936), Edward Zwick (1952), Russell Means (1939), and Paul Romer (1955). After him are Robert Conrad (1935), Mary Mapes Dodge (1831), Robert Sean Leonard (1969), Arielle Dombasle (1953), Captain Beefheart (1941), and Jack Kevorkian (1928).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, George Ord ranks 58. Before him are David Julius (1955), David Baltimore (1938), James P. Allison (1948), Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), Bruce Beutler (1957), and Phillip Allen Sharp (1944). After him are Craig Venter (1946), Esther Lederberg (1922), Wilder Penfield (1891), Andrew Fire (1959), Joel Asaph Allen (1838), and Robert Gallo (1937).

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