BIOLOGIST

Janaki Ammal

1897 - 1984

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Edavalath Kakkat Janaki Ammal (4 November 1897 – 7 February 1984) was an Indian botanist who worked on plant breeding, cytogenetics and phytogeography. Her most notable work involved studies on sugarcane and the eggplant (brinjal). She also worked on the cytogenetics of a range of plants and co-authored the Chromosome Atlas of Cultivated Plants (1945) with C.D. Darlington. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Janaki Ammal has received more than 472,945 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Janaki Ammal is the 536th most popular biologist (up from 557th in 2019), the 465th most popular biography from India (down from 457th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Biologist.

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Janaki Ammal has had the most page views in the with 96,131 views, followed by Hindi (5,800), and Simple English (5,389). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (89.55%), Malayalam (51.46%), and Sanskrit (47.81%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Janaki Ammal ranks 536 out of 1,097. Before her are Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, Frederic Clements, Basilius Besler, Gustav Radde, Craig Mello, and William Curtis. After her are Franz Meyen, Marie Jules César Savigny, Paul Bert, Oswald Heer, Albrecht Thaer, and Johann Friedrich Meckel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Janaki Ammal ranks 189. Before her are Karel Lamač, Hansa Jivraj Mehta, Ilya Ilf, Gene Tunney, Isabelino Gradín, and Friedrich Schulz. After her are Ramón Gil, Maximilian von Edelsheim, Hersch Lauterpacht, Walter Pidgeon, Pierre Fresnay, and Albert Renger-Patzsch. Among people deceased in 1984, Janaki Ammal ranks 137. Before her are Flora Robson, Gaëtan Dugas, Lillian Hellman, Arvīds Jansons, Lola Anglada, and Roberto Porta. After her are Sam Jaffe, Jackie Wilson, Hovhannes Shiraz, Eulogio Martínez, Arkhip Lyulka, and Rambai Barni.

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In India

Among people born in India, Janaki Ammal ranks 465 out of 1,861. Before her are Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Anupam Kher (1955), Bhalchandra Nemade (1938), Madan Lal Dhingra (1883), Shammi Kapoor (1931), and Nilakantha Somayaji (1444). After her are John Frost (1912), Amrit Kaur (1889), Kamala Nehru (1899), Brian Horrocks (1895), Harihara I (1336), and Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In India

Among biologists born in India, Janaki Ammal ranks 2. Before her are Salim Ali (1896). After her are Robert Swinhoe (1836), Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914), and Sunetra Gupta (1965).

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