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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 British 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 226,578 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). John Scott Haldane is the 1,013th most popular philosopher (down from 948th in 2019), the 3,000th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,664th in 2019) and the 68th most popular British Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, John Scott Haldane ranks 1,013 out of 1,081Before him are Yun Hyu, Alois Riehl, Sosipatra, Gottlob Ernst Schulze, Hicetas, and John Peckham. After him are Immanuel Hermann Fichte, Allan Bloom, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, Northrop Frye, Hubert Dreyfus, and Michael Oakeshott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, John Scott Haldane ranks 99Before him are Karl Staaff, Kaarlo Castrén, Johannes Thiele, Frederik van Eeden, Alicia Boole Stott, and Franz Nissl. After him are Józef Bilczewski, Themistoklis Sofoulis, José Figueroa Alcorta, Martin Kukučín, Charles de Broqueville, and Will Keith Kellogg. Among people deceased in 1936, John Scott Haldane ranks 127Before him are Jean Mermoz, Johan Turi, Leon Wyczółkowski, Edmond Aman-Jean, Wilhelm Solf, and Claudia Muzio. After him are Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin, Oscar von Sydow, Niels Neergaard, Panagis Tsaldaris, Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, and Alexander Karpinsky.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Scott Haldane ranks 3,000 out of 7,765Before him are Andrew Latimer (1949), Thomas Gage (1719), Thomas Nashe (1567), Sarah Siddons (1755), John Peckham (1227), and William Wilson (1844). After him are Milo Yiannopoulos (1984), Roger Rees (1944), Glyn Johns (1942), Frederick William Beechey (1796), E. L. James (1963), and Stella McCartney (1971).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, John Scott Haldane ranks 68Before him are Carole Pateman (1940), Anna Kingsford (1846), Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788), Martin Lings (1909), Hector Boece (1465), and John Peckham (1227). After him are Michael Oakeshott (1901), R. M. Hare (1919), John Major (1467), Eric A. Havelock (1903), Richard Price (1723), and Alister McGrath (1953).