BIOLOGIST

Herbert Giles

1845 - 1935

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Herbert Allen Giles (, 8 December 1845 – 13 February 1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist who was the professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge for 35 years. Giles was educated at Charterhouse School before becoming a British diplomat in China. He modified a Mandarin Chinese romanization system established by Thomas Wade, resulting in the widely known Wade–Giles Chinese romanization system. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Giles has received more than 139,560 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Herbert Giles is the 830th most popular biologist (down from 786th in 2019), the 4,054th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,953rd in 2019) and the 115th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 46.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Herbert Giles ranks 830 out of 1,097. Before him are William Hemsley, Johann Jakob Bernhardi, John Jacob Abel, Joseph Rock, Paul Henri Lecomte, and Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers. After him are Max Fürbringer, Sydney Parkinson, Eduard von Martens, Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt, Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet, and Zinaida Yermolyeva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Herbert Giles ranks 91. Before him are Fanny Churberg, Sámuel Teleki, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Archibald Sayce, Johan Henrik Deuntzer, and Ragna Nielsen. After him are Edmund Reitter, Johann Berger, Wollert Konow, Lobengula, Facundo Machaín, and Juan Bautista Egusquiza. Among people deceased in 1935, Herbert Giles ranks 123. Before him are Gerhard Louis De Geer, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Johan Ramstedt, Johannes Thiele, Pieter Cort van der Linden, and Alfred Ewing. After him are Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch, Vernon Lee, Guido Balzarini, Tryggvi Þórhallsson, Herbert Ponting, and Edwin Arlington Robinson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Herbert Giles ranks 4,054 out of 8,785. Before him are Jonny Evans (1988), Jack Beresford (1899), Steve Coogan (1965), Mary Millar (1936), Dennis Brain (1921), and Luke Foxe (1586). After him are Rachel Portman (1960), Edward John Eyre (1815), Acker Bilk (1929), Bernard Cribbins (1928), John Sykes (1959), and Paddy Considine (1973).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Herbert Giles ranks 115. Before him are Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), William Townsend Aiton (1766), Alec Jeffreys (1950), Thomas Thomson (1817), George Edwards (1694), and William Hemsley (1843). After him are Sydney Parkinson (1745), Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (1800), William John Burchell (1781), D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860), Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761), and Anne McLaren (1927).

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