BIOLOGIST

George Shaw

1751 - 1813

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George Kearsley Shaw (10 December 1751 – 22 July 1813) was an English botanist and zoologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Shaw has received more than 115,323 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). George Shaw is the 193rd most popular biologist (up from 246th in 2019), the 1,105th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,554th in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 120k

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  • 58.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, George Shaw ranks 193 out of 1,097. Before him are Ian Wilmut, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Eva Ekeblad, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Daniel Nathans, and Henry Walter Bates. After him are Asa Gray, Alexander Agassiz, Temple Grandin, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, and John James Audubon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1751, George Shaw ranks 13. Before him are Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia, Ferdinand, Duke of Parma, Dmitry Bortniansky, Emanuel Schikaneder, Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange. After him are Heinrich Füger, Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Clement Mary Hofbauer, François Joseph Westermann, and Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto. Among people deceased in 1813, George Shaw ranks 13. Before him are Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Christoph Martin Wieland, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Tecumseh, and Rose Bertin. After him are Johann Baptist Wanhal, Jean-Andoche Junot, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Giambattista Bodoni, and Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Shaw ranks 1,105 out of 8,785. Before him are Patrick Macnee (1922), Brenda Blethyn (1946), Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (1774), Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild (1936), Roger Scruton (1944), and Mark Phillips (1948). After him are Stevie Young (1956), Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (1473), Winifred Wagner (1897), John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792), Harriet Taylor Mill (1807), and James Meade (1907).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, George Shaw ranks 29. Before him are Martin Evans (1941), John Boyd Orr (1880), Anna Atkins (1799), George Robert Gray (1808), Ian Wilmut (1944), and Henry Walter Bates (1825). After him are Charles Bell (1774), Oldfield Thomas (1858), J. B. S. Haldane (1892), Thomas Browne (1605), Joseph Banks (1743), and Desmond Morris (1928).

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