BIOLOGIST

John Belchier

1706 - 1785

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John Belchier (1706 – 6 February 1785) was a British surgeon at Guy's Hospital from 1736 to 1768. He discovered at about the time of his Guy's appointment that the vegetable dye madder stained newly forming bone tissue, opening up the study of the growth and development of the skeleton, which was taken forward by Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau and John Hunter. Belchier was awarded the Copley Medal by the Royal Society in 1737. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Belchier has received more than 19,287 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). John Belchier is the 732nd most popular biologist (up from 872nd in 2019), the 3,545th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 53rd in 2019) and the 95th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Belchier ranks 732 out of 1,097. Before him are Émile Oustalet, Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz, Émil Goeldi, James L. Peters, Nathaniel Wallich, and Karl Julius Perleb. After him are Théodore Monod, Alfred Moquin-Tandon, John Richardson, Marmaduke Tunstall, Johann Jacob Dillenius, and Rodolfo Amando Philippi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1706, John Belchier ranks 13. Before him are Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis, John Baskerville, Princess Charlotte Amalie of Denmark, Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, and Giuseppe Asclepi.  Among people deceased in 1785, John Belchier ranks 21. Before him are Ali-Morad Khan Zand, Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, Johan Herman Wessel, Johann Gerhard König, Gottfried August Homilius, and Stephen Hopkins. After him are Ventura Rodríguez, János Sajnovics, George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, and James Oglethorpe.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Belchier ranks 3,545 out of 8,785. Before him are Len Deighton (1929), Giuseppe Wilson (1945), Norman Hunter (1943), Alan Woods (1944), James Prinsep (1799), and Samson of Dol (490). After him are Gerald Moore (1899), David Morrissey (1964), Peter Withe (1951), David Wilkie (1785), William Huskisson (1770), and John Richardson (1787).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Belchier ranks 95. Before him are N. E. Brown (1849), Keith Campbell (1954), John Hutchinson (1884), John Abbot (1751), Philip Barker-Webb (1793), and Osbert Salvin (1835). After him are John Richardson (1787), Marmaduke Tunstall (1743), Miriam Rothschild (1908), John Anderson (1833), Louis Fraser (1810), and Mary F. Lyon (1925).

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