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John Lawrence LeConte

1825 - 1883

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John Lawrence LeConte MD (May 13, 1825 – November 15, 1883) was an American entomologist, responsible for naming and describing approximately half of the insect taxa known in the United States during his lifetime, including some 5,000 species of beetles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Lawrence LeConte has received more than 30,926 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). John Lawrence LeConte is the 795th most popular biologist (down from 767th in 2019), the 7,760th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,782nd in 2019) and the 110th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Lawrence LeConte ranks 795 out of 841Before him are Spencer Fullerton Baird, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet, André Marie Constant Duméril, Jan Sztolcman, and Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov. After him are Karl Alfred von Zittel, Aimée Antoinette Camus, Thomas Nuttall, Robert Weinberg, John Jacob Abel, and Reginald Innes Pocock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, John Lawrence LeConte ranks 69Before him are E. Marlitt, Federico Errázuriz Zañartu, Anton Heinrich Springer, William McGonagall, Aleksey Pleshcheyev, and George Inness. After him are A. P. Hill, R. M. Ballantyne, Benjamin Mountfort, Albrecht Weber, Francisco Antonino Vidal, and Adelaide Anne Procter. Among people deceased in 1883, John Lawrence LeConte ranks 64Before him are Joachim Barrande, Oswald Heer, Sven Nilsson, Matthew Webb, Samo Chalupka, and Victor Puiseux. After him are Jeremiah S. Black, Peter Cooper, William Spottiswoode, Henry John Stephen Smith, and Lot M. Morrill.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Lawrence LeConte ranks 7,760 out of 18,182Before him are Ken Curtis (1916), Peter Jason (1944), Gailard Sartain (1946), John Billingsley (1960), Ted Schroeder (1921), and Tadd Dameron (1917). After him are Granville Woods (1856), Joe Roberts (1871), Melora Hardin (1967), Jason Sudeikis (1975), Seasick Steve (1951), and Della Reese (1931).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, John Lawrence LeConte ranks 110Before him are Stanley Norman Cohen (1935), Sam Harris (1967), Sereno Watson (1826), Charles Conrad Abbott (1843), Judah Folkman (1933), and Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823). After him are Robert Weinberg (1942), John Jacob Abel (1857), Jane Colden (1724), Clinton Hart Merriam (1855), Wilfred Hudson Osgood (1875), and Mary Katharine Brandegee (1844).