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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 132,649 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). James Dwight Dana is the 237th most popular biologist (down from 193rd in 2019), the 2,515th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,942nd in 2019) and the 49th most popular American Biologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, James Dwight Dana ranks 237 out of 841. Before him are Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Christen C. Raunkiær, Friedrich Loeffler, Joseph Gaertner, Pieter Boddaert, and Hieronymus Bock. After him are Sergei Winogradsky, Josias Braun-Blanquet, Martin Chalfie, Joy Adamson, Otto Brunfels, and Joseph Dalton Hooker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, James Dwight Dana ranks 23. Before him are Princess Marie of Orléans, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Juan Pablo Duarte, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, and Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria. After him are Frédéric Ozanam, Auguste Maquet, Pierre Alphonse Laurent, Matthias Castrén, Pōmare IV, and Countess Franziska Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau. Among people deceased in 1895, James Dwight Dana ranks 31. Before him are Charles Frederick Worth, Carl Ludwig, Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe, Floriano Peixoto, Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, and Franz Ernst Neumann. After him are Ányos Jedlik, François Certain de Canrobert, Gustav Freytag, Ding Ruchang, Francesco Filippini, and Stefan Stambolov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Dwight Dana ranks 2,515 out of 18,182. Before him are Jane Darwell (1879), Robert Culp (1930), Dean Cain (1966), Thelma Ritter (1902), Dorothea Tanning (1910), and William Le Baron Jenney (1832). After him are Ken Mattingly (1936), Rob Schneider (1963), Aldrich Ames (1941), Kate Millett (1934), Marcia Gay Harden (1959), and Paul Rudd (1969).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, James Dwight Dana ranks 49. Before him are David Baltimore (1938), Michael Rosbash (1944), Michael W. Young (1949), Bruce Beutler (1957), H. Robert Horvitz (1947), and Craig Venter (1946). After him are Martin Chalfie (1947), David Julius (1955), Wilder Penfield (1891), Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), Carol W. Greider (1961), and Joel Asaph Allen (1838).

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