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John Scott Haldane

1860 - 1936

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John Scott Haldane (; 2 May 1860 – 14/15 March 1936) was a Scottish physician physiologist and philosopher famous for intrepid self-experimentation which led to many important discoveries about the human body and the nature of gases. He also experimented on his son, the celebrated and polymathic biologist J. B. S. Haldane, even when he was quite young. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Scott Haldane has received more than 241,566 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. John Scott Haldane is the 933rd most popular philosopher (up from 1,013th in 2019), the 2,313th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,992nd in 2019) and the 57th most popular British Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, John Scott Haldane ranks 933 out of 1,267. Before him are Dietrich von Hildebrand, Vasily Rozanov, Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Antoine Berman, Leo Baeck, and Azmi Bishara. After him are Ervin László, Anandavardhana, Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, Pedro da Fonseca, Paul Janet, and Richard Swinburne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, John Scott Haldane ranks 85. Before him are Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Franz Nissl, Florence Harding, Henrietta Szold, Joan Maragall, and Charles Lwanga. After him are Edward MacDowell, Ellen Axson Wilson, Emil von Reznicek, Alberto Franchetti, Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas, and Nikolai Ottovich von Essen. Among people deceased in 1936, John Scott Haldane ranks 107. Before him are Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, Oscar Wisting, Bhikaiji Cama, Karl Buresch, Georges Vacher de Lapouge, and Walther Wever. After him are Eino Rahja, Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, Ignacy Daszyński, Mikhail Kuzmin, and Marguerite Durand.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Scott Haldane ranks 2,313 out of 8,785. Before him are Claude Rains (1889), Teddy Sheringham (1966), Veronica Cartwright (1949), John Playfair (1748), Rachel Roberts (1927), and David Tomlinson (1917). After him are Murray Head (1946), Martin Donnelly (1964), John Machin (1680), Edward Wilson (1872), Julian Bream (1933), and Roy Salvadori (1922).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, John Scott Haldane ranks 57. Before him are F. H. Bradley (1846), Charles Kay Ogden (1889), Michael Dummett (1925), Perry Anderson (1938), William Paley (1743), and Bernard Williams (1929). After him are Richard Swinburne (1934), Martin Lings (1909), Samuel Clarke (1675), Anna Kingsford (1846), J. M. E. McTaggart (1866), and Thomas Arnold (1795).

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