BIOLOGIST

James Sowerby

1757 - 1822

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James Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist, illustrator and mineralogist. Contributions to published works, such as A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland or English Botany, include his detailed and appealing plates. The use of vivid colour and accessible texts was intended to reach a widening audience in works of natural history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Sowerby has received more than 55,005 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. James Sowerby is the 760th most popular biologist (down from 731st in 2019), the 3,674th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,659th in 2019) and the 105th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, James Sowerby ranks 760 out of 1,097. Before him are August W. Eichler, Pál Kitaibel, Michele Tenore, John Gerard, Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein, and Albert Bruce Jackson. After him are Alexei Fedchenko, Karl Moritz Schumann, David Keilin, Heinrich Zollinger, Hans von Berlepsch, and Bunzō Hayata.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1757, James Sowerby ranks 40. Before him are Countess Friederike von Schlieben, Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Józef Kozłowski, Wojciech Bogusławski, Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, and Pál Kitaibel. After him are Étienne Pierre Ventenat, John Adair, James Wilkinson, and Charles Pinckney. Among people deceased in 1822, James Sowerby ranks 37. Before him are Frei Galvão, Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, Uesugi Harunori, Rudolph Schadow, Pierre-François Bouchard, and William Pinkney. After him are Jared Ingersoll, and Pierce Butler.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Sowerby ranks 3,674 out of 8,785. Before him are Martin Brundle (1959), Albert Bruce Jackson (1876), Gemma Arterton (1986), Margery Kempe (1373), John Miles (1943), and Patrick Abercrombie (1879). After him are William Astbury (1898), Joe Hart (1987), Russell Brand (1975), Paul Ince (1967), Michael Kitchen (1948), and Sid Kimpton (1887).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, James Sowerby ranks 105. Before him are John Anderson (1833), Louis Fraser (1810), Mary F. Lyon (1925), Charles Wyville Thomson (1830), John Gerard (1545), and Albert Bruce Jackson (1876). After him are William Thomas Blanford (1832), Henry Baker (1698), Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), William Townsend Aiton (1766), and Alec Jeffreys (1950).

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