BIOLOGIST

John Needham

1713 - 1781

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John Turberville Needham FRS (10 September 1713 – 30 December 1781) was an English biologist and Roman Catholic priest. He was first exposed to natural philosophy while in seminary school and later published a paper which, while the subject was mostly about geology, described the mechanics of pollen and won recognition in the botany community. He did experiments with gravy and later, tainted wheat, in containers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Needham has received more than 201,184 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). John Needham is the 413th most popular biologist (down from 336th in 2019), the 2,170th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,986th in 2019) and the 61st most popular British Biologist.

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  • 200k

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  • 53.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Needham ranks 413 out of 1,097. Before him are Georg Eberhard Rumphius, Karl Eichwald, Peter Artedi, C. L. Gloger, Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, and Johann Jakob Heckel. After him are Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, Guillaume Rondelet, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Alexander Braun, George Robert Waterhouse, and Pehr Kalm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1713, John Needham ranks 13. Before him are John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Junípero Serra, Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha, Johann Ludwig Krebs, and Guillaume Thomas François Raynal. After him are Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Princess Caroline of Great Britain, Princess Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Allan Ramsay, John Whitehurst, and Francis Lewis. Among people deceased in 1781, John Needham ranks 12. Before him are Josef Mysliveček, Ablai Khan, Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas, Faustina Bordoni, and Túpac Katari. After him are Johann Anton Güldenstädt, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Johannes Ewald, Micaela Bastidas, Bartolina Sisa, and Tobias Furneaux.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Needham ranks 2,170 out of 8,785. Before him are William Kingdon Clifford (1845), Angela Carter (1940), Robert Burton (1577), Naomie Harris (1976), Nevil Maskelyne (1732), and Wendy Hiller (1912). After him are E. H. Shepard (1879), Tom Holland (1996), Ronald Colman (1891), Henry Percy (1364), Patricia Bredin (1935), and Richard Baxter (1615).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Needham ranks 61. Before him are Samuel Frederick Gray (1766), Roderick Murchison (1792), Robert Fortune (1812), James Edward Smith (1759), Gregory Winter (1951), and Marie Stopes (1880). After him are George Robert Waterhouse (1810), William Speirs Bruce (1867), William Hudson (1730), Edward Daniel Clarke (1769), June Almeida (1930), and George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799).

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