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BIOLOGIST

George Prideaux Robert Harris

1775 - 1810

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George Prideaux Robert Harris (1775–1810) was the deputy surveyor in the early days of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), Australia, from settlement in 1803 until his death in Hobart Town in 1810. He was also an explorer, artist and naturalist who described many of the plants and marsupials native to the Island, including the Tasmanian devil and the thylacine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Prideaux Robert Harris has received more than 19,140 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. George Prideaux Robert Harris is the 414th most popular biologist (up from 426th in 2019).

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, George Prideaux Robert Harris ranks 414 out of 841Before him are Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Matthias de l'Obel, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Louis Claude Richard, Peter Artedi, and Henrik Steffens. After him are Svante Pääbo, Johan Peter Falk, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, Martha Chase, James P. Allison, and Félix Vicq-d'Azyr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, George Prideaux Robert Harris ranks 32Before him are Louisa Adams, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Baji Rao II, Daniel O'Connell, Charles Lamb, and Nicolas Isouard. After him are José de Palafox y Melci, 1st Duke of Zaragoza, Honoré Charles Reille, Conrad Malte-Brun, Antonio Bertoloni, Juan Martín Díez, and Adolf Stieler. Among people deceased in 1810, George Prideaux Robert Harris ranks 22Before him are Mir Taqi Mir, Alejandro Malaspina, József Alvinczi, Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper, and Antoine-Denis Chaudet. After him are William Martin, Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Charles Brockden Brown, Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, John Hoppner, and Johan Zoffany.

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