BIOLOGIST

John Murray

1841 - 1914

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Sir John Murray (3 March 1841 – 16 March 1914) was a pioneering Canadian-born British oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Murray has received more than 84,580 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). John Murray is the 511th most popular biologist (up from 572nd in 2019), the 229th most popular biography from Canada (up from 275th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Biologist.

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  • 85k

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  • 51.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Murray ranks 511 out of 1,097. Before him are Achille Valenciennes, Sébastien Vaillant, Edwin Klebs, Carl Jakob Sundevall, Theodore Gill, and Christian von Steven. After him are Johann Julius Walbaum, Daniel Giraud Elliot, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, Ivan Martinov, Paul Gervais, and Paul Nurse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, John Murray ranks 67. Before him are Eugen Dücker, George Turner, Adolfo Farsari, Philipp Spitta, Carl Robert Jakobson, and Andrejs Pumpurs. After him are Federico Zandomeneghi, Laza Kostić, Carl Tausig, Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, and Paul Eyschen. Among people deceased in 1914, John Murray ranks 86. Before him are Hubertine Auclert, José Evaristo Uriburu, Frederick Lorz, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, Altaf Hussain Hali, and Theodore Gill. After him are Amélie Lundahl, Nils Christoffer Dunér, Edward Robert Hughes, Adlai Stevenson I, Adolf Martens, and Jules Lemaître.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, John Murray ranks 229 out of 1,622. Before him are David Card (1956), Josephine Crowell (1859), Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914), Robert D. Hare (1934), Debbi Wilkes (1946), and August Schellenberg (1936). After him are William H. McNeill (1917), Mazo de la Roche (1879), Marie Dressler (1868), Colleen Dewhurst (1924), Gaëtan Dugas (1952), and Michael Ontkean (1946).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Canada

Among biologists born in Canada, John Murray ranks 2. Before him are Ralph M. Steinman (1943). After him are David Suzuki (1936), George Romanes (1848), Colin Munro MacLeod (1909), William Diller Matthew (1871), Robert H. MacArthur (1930), Peter Watts (1958), Alice Wilson (1881), Severn Cullis-Suzuki (1979), Alice Eastwood (1859), and Carrie Derick (1862).

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