BIOLOGIST

James Dwight Dana

1813 - 1895

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James Dwight Dana FRS FRSE (February 12, 1813 – April 14, 1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Dwight Dana has received more than 145,460 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. James Dwight Dana is the 224th most popular biologist (up from 236th in 2019), the 2,114th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,509th in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Biologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, James Dwight Dana ranks 224 out of 1,097. Before him are Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Stephan Endlicher, Albert von Kölliker, Roberto de Visiani, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, and H. Robert Horvitz. After him are Clair Cameron Patterson, George Smith, Francisco Varela, Humberto Maturana, Carl Bernhard von Trinius, and Michael Houghton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, James Dwight Dana ranks 22. Before him are Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, Princess Marie of Orléans, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Princess Josephine of Baden, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, and Juan Pablo Duarte. After him are Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Jean Stas, Matthias Castrén, Jørgen Moe, Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria, and Auguste Maquet. Among people deceased in 1895, James Dwight Dana ranks 27. Before him are Frederick Douglass, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Lord Randolph Churchill, Franz Ernst Neumann, Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, and Francesco Filippini. After him are Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe, Charles Frederick Worth, John Russell Hind, Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, Floriano Peixoto, and Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Dwight Dana ranks 2,114 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Cialdini (1945), Josh Brolin (1968), Cus D'Amato (1908), Kurtwood Smith (1943), Georgina Spelvin (1936), and Chris Rock (1965). After him are The Undertaker (1965), Samuel Fuller (1912), Oscar Robertson (1938), Michael Jeter (1952), Alex Borstein (1971), and Joseph Greenberg (1915).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, James Dwight Dana ranks 40. Before him are Daniel Nathans (1928), Asa Gray (1810), Temple Grandin (1947), Wilbur Scoville (1865), Michael W. Young (1949), and H. Robert Horvitz (1947). After him are Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), George Smith (1941), Charles M. Rice (1952), Howard Martin Temin (1934), James Rothman (1950), and Martin Chalfie (1947).

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