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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 190,982 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. John Needham is the 337th most popular biologist, the 1,991st most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 53rd most popular British Biologist.

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  • 16

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  • 2.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.49

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Needham ranks 337 out of 841. Before him are Ian Wilmut, François-Alphonse Forel, Takenoshin Nakai, Emil Christian Hansen, Karl Koch, and John Stevens Henslow. After him are John Sulston, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Leizu, Charles Chamberland, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, and Rudolf Jakob Camerarius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1713, John Needham ranks 12. Before him are Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Junípero Serra, Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha, Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, and John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute. After him are Johann Ludwig Krebs, Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Princess Caroline of Great Britain, Allan Ramsay, and John Whitehurst. Among people deceased in 1781, John Needham ranks 11. Before him are Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Josef Mysliveček, Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Ablai Khan, Faustina Bordoni, and Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas. After him are Túpac Katari, Johannes Ewald, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Johann Anton Güldenstädt, Tobias Furneaux, and Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Needham ranks 1,991 out of 7,765. Before him are Steve Winwood (1948), Phil Taylor (1954), B. C. Forbes (1880), John Stevens Henslow (1796), Madge Syers (1881), and Rick Wakeman (1949). After him are William Hartnell (1908), John Michell (1724), John Bagot Glubb (1897), Dudley Moore (1935), John Sulston (1942), and William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1773).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Needham ranks 53. Before him are Patrick Geddes (1854), Robert Fortune (1812), Roderick Murchison (1792), Nehemiah Grew (1641), Ian Wilmut (1944), and John Stevens Henslow (1796). After him are John Sulston (1942), William Speirs Bruce (1867), John Maynard Smith (1920), Paul Nurse (1949), William Hudson (1730), and Oldfield Thomas (1858).

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