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BIOLOGIST

George Robert Gray

1808 - 1872

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George Robert Gray (8 July 1808 – 6 May 1872) was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Robert Gray has received more than 90,322 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). George Robert Gray is the 312th most popular biologist (down from 161st in 2019), the 1,885th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,083rd in 2019) and the 46th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 53.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, George Robert Gray ranks 312 out of 841. Before him are Theodor Boveri, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, Lorenz Oken, Charles Plumier, Eric F. Wieschaus, and Richard Henderson. After him are Martin Vahl, Patrick Geddes, Eugenius Warming, Johann Reinhold Forster, Eugene Odum, and Albert Günther.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, George Robert Gray ranks 30. Before him are Nimatullah Kassab, José de Espronceda, Mindon Min, Emma Darwin, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, and Henrik Wergeland. After him are Venancio Flores, Urbano Rattazzi, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval, Prince Frederick of Württemberg, and Karl Friedrich Lessing. Among people deceased in 1872, George Robert Gray ranks 29. Before him are Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, John Bowring, Handrij Zejler, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, and Kamehameha V. After him are Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Avram Iancu, Alfred Clebsch, John Frederick Kensett, George Meade, and Petar Preradović.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Robert Gray ranks 1,885 out of 7,765. Before him are Terry Eagleton (1943), Tim Hunt (1943), Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693), Leo G. Carroll (1886), Mark Hollis (1955), and Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862). After him are Geri Halliwell (1972), Renée Vivien (1877), James Blunt (1974), Patrick Geddes (1854), John Flaxman (1755), and Jenson Button (1980).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, George Robert Gray ranks 46. Before him are Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942), Marie Stopes (1880), John Hughlings Jackson (1835), John Gould (1804), Jack W. Szostak (1952), and Richard Henderson (1945). After him are Patrick Geddes (1854), Robert Fortune (1812), Roderick Murchison (1792), Nehemiah Grew (1641), Ian Wilmut (1944), and John Stevens Henslow (1796).

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