BIOLOGIST

James Chapin

1889 - 1964

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James Paul Chapin (July 9, 1889 – April 5, 1964) was an American ornithologist and curator of the American Museum of Natural History. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Chapin has received more than 23,927 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. James Chapin is the 967th most popular biologist, the 9,940th most popular biography from United States and the 141st most popular American Biologist.

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  • 1.89

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, James Chapin ranks 967 out of 1,097Before him are John Hutton Balfour, Richard Meinertzhagen, Aimée Antoinette Camus, João Barbosa Rodrigues, Alexander Wetmore, and Alexander Wendt. After him are John Lawrence LeConte, Archibald Menzies, William Diller Matthew, Robert H. MacArthur, Leonhard Stejneger, and Sarah Gilbert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, James Chapin ranks 280Before him are Elsie Janis, Vasily Struve, Leslie Boardman, Nina Agadzhanova, Frederico Paredes, and Johan Sigfrid Sirén. After him are Eugene Pallette, Artur Adson, Jamnalal Bajaj, Ray Collins, Edward Sedgwick, and G. D. H. Cole. Among people deceased in 1964, James Chapin ranks 194Before him are Nuriye Ulviye Mevlan Civelek, Milton Margai, Lucky Dube, Diana Wynyard, Nella Larsen, and Anna J. Cooper. After him are Edward Van Sloan, Adele Goldstine, Gracie Allen, Branislav Hrnjiček, C. I. Lewis, and Hedwig Kohn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Chapin ranks 9,940 out of 20,380Before him are George Amick (1924), Janine Lindemulder (1968), Judith Curry (1953), Robert F. Overmyer (1936), Marie Wilson (1916), and Andrea James (1967). After him are Frank Waller (1884), Lou Jones (1932), Roderick Chisholm (1916), Caroline Aaron (1952), Edward Van Sloan (1882), and Oliver Otis Howard (1830).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, James Chapin ranks 141Before him are Gerrit Smith Miller (1869), Lucy Shapiro (1940), William Beebe (1877), Charles Sibley (1917), Janet Rowley (1925), and Alexander Wetmore (1886). After him are John Lawrence LeConte (1825), Irene Pepperberg (1949), Herbert Boyer (1936), Frank Chapman (1864), Christof Koch (1956), and Beatrice Mintz (1921).