BIOLOGIST

John Richardson

1787 - 1865

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Sir John Richardson FRS FRSE (5 November 1787 – 5 June 1865) was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Richardson has received more than 46,672 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). John Richardson is the 735th most popular biologist (down from 684th in 2019), the 3,550th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,446th in 2019) and the 96th most popular British Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 47k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of John Richardsons by language

Over the past year John Richardson has had the most page views in the with 3,294 views, followed by German (1,057), and Russian (952). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Galician (162.62%), Malagasy (112.78%), and Catalan (38.21%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Richardson ranks 735 out of 1,097. Before him are James L. Peters, Nathaniel Wallich, Karl Julius Perleb, John Belchier, Théodore Monod, and Alfred Moquin-Tandon. After him are Marmaduke Tunstall, Johann Jacob Dillenius, Rodolfo Amando Philippi, Otto Stapf, Franz Steindachner, and Miriam Rothschild.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, John Richardson ranks 46. Before him are François Sudre, Andrés Quintana Roo, Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine, Johann Natterer, Samuel Cunard, and Josephine Kablick. After him are Pedro Vélez, Edward Blore, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter, José Tomás Ovalle, Thomas Hodgskin, and Thomas Say. Among people deceased in 1865, John Richardson ranks 65. Before him are Kitsos Tzavelas, Nicholas Wiseman, Lewis Powell, Eugène Devéria, Samuel Cunard, and Edward Everett. After him are Manuel Isidoro Belzu, Isabella Beeton, Alphonse Henri d'Hautpoul, Miklós Jósika, Marie-Anne Libert, and José María Pérez de Urdininea.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Richardson ranks 3,550 out of 8,785. Before him are John Belchier (1706), Gerald Moore (1899), David Morrissey (1964), Peter Withe (1951), David Wilkie (1785), and William Huskisson (1770). After him are Marmaduke Tunstall (1743), Roy Jenkins (1920), Catherine McCormack (1972), Gary Numan (1958), Thomas Morley (1557), and Jonny Greenwood (1971).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Richardson ranks 96. Before him are Keith Campbell (1954), John Hutchinson (1884), John Abbot (1751), Philip Barker-Webb (1793), Osbert Salvin (1835), and John Belchier (1706). After him are Marmaduke Tunstall (1743), Miriam Rothschild (1908), John Anderson (1833), Louis Fraser (1810), Mary F. Lyon (1925), and Charles Wyville Thomson (1830).

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