BIOLOGIST

Joel Asaph Allen

1838 - 1921

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Joel Asaph Allen (July 19, 1838 – August 29, 1921) was an American zoologist, mammalogist, and ornithologist. He became the first president of the American Ornithologists' Union, the first curator of birds and mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, and the first head of that museum's Department of Ornithology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joel Asaph Allen has received more than 71,208 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Joel Asaph Allen is the 356th most popular biologist (down from 293rd in 2019), the 3,241st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,924th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joel Asaph Allen ranks 356 out of 1,097. Before him are Carlo Allioni, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Fritz Müller, Christian Ludwig Brehm, Katsuko Saruhashi, and Louis Claude Richard. After him are Pierre Magnol, Antoine de Jussieu, Achille Richard, William Jackson Hooker, Pierre Edmond Boissier, and Rudolf Jakob Camerarius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Joel Asaph Allen ranks 54. Before him are James Craig Watson, Nicolae Grigorescu, Yikuang, Victoria Woodhull, George William Hill, and Friedrich Konrad Beilstein. After him are Jules Dalou, Paolo Boselli, Szymon Winawer, Sherburne Wesley Burnham, August Šenoa, and Karl Weyprecht. Among people deceased in 1921, Joel Asaph Allen ranks 61. Before him are Said Halim Pasha, Émile Boutroux, Pauline von Metternich, Charles Joseph Bonaparte, Otto von Gierke, and Agenor Maria Gołuchowski. After him are Christina Nilsson, Émile Combes, Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Fyodor Sergeyev, Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, and Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joel Asaph Allen ranks 3,241 out of 20,380. Before him are Roy Sullivan (1912), John Barth (1930), Jim Thorpe (1887), Sam Wood (1883), Barbara O'Neil (1910), and Clifford Brown (1930). After him are Garret Hobart (1844), Lee Krasner (1908), Barry Goldwater (1909), Nancy Roman (1925), Gall (1840), and Charles Grodin (1935).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Joel Asaph Allen ranks 63. Before him are Phillip Allen Sharp (1944), George Ord (1781), Craig Venter (1946), Esther Lederberg (1922), Wilder Penfield (1891), and Andrew Fire (1959). After him are Robert Gallo (1937), Brian Kobilka (1955), Martha Chase (1927), Luther Burbank (1849), Eugene Odum (1913), and Robert Sapolsky (1957).

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