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BIOLOGIST

James Edward Smith

1759 - 1828

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Sir James Edward Smith (2 December 1759 – 17 March 1828) was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Edward Smith has received more than 81,887 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). James Edward Smith is the 255th most popular biologist (down from 251st in 2019), the 1,583rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,535th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 55.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, James Edward Smith ranks 255 out of 841. Before him are Rupert Sheldrake, David Julius, August Grisebach, David Bruce, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, and Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier. After him are Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Hermann Schlegel, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Johann Hermann, Eduard Rüppell, and Wilder Penfield.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1759, James Edward Smith ranks 19. Before him are Maria Theresia von Paradis, Friedrich August Wolf, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, Jacques Cathelineau, and Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach. After him are François Devienne, Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Johann Christian Reil, Franz Krommer, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, and Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths. Among people deceased in 1828, James Edward Smith ranks 19. Before him are Charlotte, Princess Royal, William Hyde Wollaston, Radama I, Sineperver Sultan, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool. After him are Richard Parkes Bonington, François Isaac de Rivaz, Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Jacques Lauriston, and Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Edward Smith ranks 1,583 out of 7,765. Before him are Rafael Merry del Val (1865), Roger Hunt (1938), Eric Knight (1897), George Smith (1840), Kate Moss (1974), and Sam Worthington (1976). After him are Steve Hackett (1950), Walter Bagehot (1826), Howard Staunton (1810), Gerald Gardner (1884), Ian Kershaw (1943), and Michael Anderson (1920).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, James Edward Smith ranks 37. Before him are John Boyd Orr (1880), Thomas Browne (1605), John Lindley (1799), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), George Shaw (1751), and Rupert Sheldrake (1942). After him are June Almeida (1930), Arthur Tansley (1871), Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942), Marie Stopes (1880), John Hughlings Jackson (1835), and John Gould (1804).

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