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Gilbert White

1720 - 1793

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Gilbert White (18 July 1720 – 26 June 1793) was a "parson-naturalist", a pioneering English naturalist, ecologist, and ornithologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gilbert White has received more than 290,626 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Gilbert White is the 975th most popular biologist (down from 854th in 2019), the 4,984th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,439th in 2019) and the 162nd most popular British Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 290k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Gilbert White ranks 975 out of 1,097. Before him are Archibald Menzies, William Diller Matthew, Robert H. MacArthur, Leonhard Stejneger, Sarah Gilbert, and Irene Pepperberg. After him are Herbert Boyer, Frank Chapman, Wim Crusio, Pieter Willem Korthals, Helia Bravo Hollis, and Flossie Wong-Staal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1720, Gilbert White ranks 26. Before him are Maximilian Hell, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Charles De Geer, Balaji Baji Rao, Justus Möser, and Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville.  Among people deceased in 1793, Gilbert White ranks 49. Before him are Carl Gustaf Pilo, Anton Friedrich Büsching, Roger Sherman, Timur Shah Durrani, William Robertson, and Johann August Ephraim Goeze. After him is Peter Perez Burdett.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gilbert White ranks 4,984 out of 8,785. Before him are Guy Fletcher (1960), John Opie (1761), Ann Sidney (1944), Terry Paine (1939), Chris Claremont (1950), and Omid Djalili (1965). After him are Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873), Duncan James (1978), Jimmy Murphy (1910), Laura Knight (1877), Zadie Smith (1975), and W. H. R. Rivers (1864).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Gilbert White ranks 162. Before him are William T. Stearn (1911), Edward Lhuyd (1660), John Hutton Balfour (1808), Richard Meinertzhagen (1878), Archibald Menzies (1754), and Sarah Gilbert (1962). After him are Hugh Huxley (1924), Lancelot Hogben (1895), David Douglas (1799), Bryan Sykes (1947), Annie Lorrain Smith (1854), and John Claudius Loudon (1783).

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