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BIOLOGIST

Ibn al-Baitar

1197 - 1248

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Diyāʾ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Mālaqī, commonly known as Ibn al-Bayṭār (Arabic: ابن البيطار) (1197–1248 AD) was an Andalusian Arab physician, botanist, pharmacist and scientist. His main contribution was to systematically record the additions made by Islamic physicians in the Middle Ages, which added between 300 and 400 types of medicine to the one thousand previously known since antiquity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn al-Baitar has received more than 145,866 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Ibn al-Baitar is the 93rd most popular biologist (down from 63rd in 2019), the 254th most popular biography from Spain (down from 213th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Spanish Biologist.

Ibn al-Baitar was a 12th century physician and botanist who wrote the Book of Simple Drugs. He is most famous for his work on drugs and plants.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ibn al-Baitar ranks 93 out of 841Before him are Elizabeth Blackburn, E. O. Wilson, André Michel Lwoff, John Gurdon, Werner Arber, and Bernard Katz. After him are William Carey, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Thomas Huckle Weller, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Carl Peter Thunberg, and Nikolay Pirogov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1197, Ibn al-Baitar ranks 1After him are Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse, Aybak, Emperor Juntoku, Mafalda of Portugal, Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy, Agnes of Assisi, Yolanda of Courtenay, Nikephoros Blemmydes, Yusuf II, Almohad caliph, Gonzalo de Berceo, and Richard of Chichester. Among people deceased in 1248, Ibn al-Baitar ranks 4Before him are Subutai, Shams Tabrizi, and Güyük Khan. After him are Sancho II of Portugal, Al-Adil II, Henry II, Duke of Brabant, and Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Ibn al-Baitar ranks 254 out of 2,932Before him are Alfonso III of Aragon (1265), Fernando Rey (1917), Reccared I (510), Manuel Santana (1938), Carlota Joaquina of Spain (1775), and Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira (1542). After him are Matilde Camus (1919), Pompeia Plotina (65), Benjamin of Tudela (1130), Alfonso I of Asturias (693), Nachmanides (1194), and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Spain

Among biologists born in Spain, Ibn al-Baitar ranks 2Before him are Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852). After him are Antonio José Cavanilles (1745), Francisco Hernández de Toledo (1515), Francisco J. Ayala (1934), Francisco Manuel Blanco (1778), Hipólito Ruiz López (1754), Ángel Cabrera (1879), and José Antonio Pavón Jiménez (1754).