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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 79,476 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. John Murray is the 573rd most popular biologist (down from 482nd in 2019), the 275th most popular biography from Canada (down from 215th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Biologist.

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  • 79k

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  • 48.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Murray ranks 573 out of 841Before him are Francis Collins, Gustav Radde, Achille Richard, Alfred Sturtevant, Oswald Heer, and Alfred Newton. After him are Georg August Goldfuss, Johann Julius Walbaum, Johan August Wahlberg, Amotz Zahavi, Asa Gray, and Émile Duclaux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, John Murray ranks 72Before him are Laza Kostić, Andrejs Pumpurs, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., George Turner, Hugo Gyldén, and Savva Mamontov. After him are Adolfo Farsari, Gaudenzio Marconi, Alfred Cogniaux, Giuseppe Pitrè, Anselmo Lorenzo, and William Henry Hudson. Among people deceased in 1914, John Murray ranks 95Before him are Peyo Yavorov, José Evaristo Uriburu, Wilhelm Lexis, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, Christopher Cradock, and Amélie Lundahl. After him are Joshua Chamberlain, Jean Bouin, Georgy Sedov, Richard Heuberger, Tor Aulin, and Anselmo Lorenzo.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, John Murray ranks 275 out of 1,350Before him are Henry Czerny (1959), Henri Richard (1936), Hal Foster (1892), August Schellenberg (1936), George London (1920), and John Vernon (1932). After him are Tricia Helfer (1974), Norman L. Bowen (1887), John Peters Humphrey (1905), Steven Erikson (1959), André Bessette (1845), and Northrop Frye (1912).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Canada

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