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John Stevens Henslow

1796 - 1861

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John Stevens Henslow (6 February 1796 – 16 May 1861) was an English Anglican priest, botanist and geologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Stevens Henslow has received more than 121,175 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. John Stevens Henslow is the 336th most popular biologist (down from 292nd in 2019), the 1,988th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,721st in 2019) and the 52nd most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Stevens Henslow ranks 336 out of 841Before him are Alexander von Nordmann, Ian Wilmut, François-Alphonse Forel, Takenoshin Nakai, Emil Christian Hansen, and Karl Koch. After him are John Needham, John Sulston, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Leizu, Charles Chamberland, and Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, John Stevens Henslow ranks 29Before him are Princess Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, François Mignet, Carl Ludwig Blume, and August von Platen-Hallermünde. After him are Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Abdullah Abdul Kadir, Manto Mavrogenous, Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao, Johann Christian Poggendorff, and Walter Hunt. Among people deceased in 1861, John Stevens Henslow ranks 33Before him are Henri Mouhot, Pierre Berthier, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Nikolay Dobrolyubov, and Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov. After him are Eugène de Mazenod, Joachim Lelewel, Karol Lipiński, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Louis Niedermeyer, and Albert Niemann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Stevens Henslow ranks 1,988 out of 7,765Before him are Rachel Kempson (1910), Christine Keeler (1942), Freddie Highmore (1992), Steve Winwood (1948), Phil Taylor (1954), and B. C. Forbes (1880). After him are Madge Syers (1881), Rick Wakeman (1949), John Needham (1713), William Hartnell (1908), John Michell (1724), and John Bagot Glubb (1897).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Stevens Henslow ranks 52Before him are George Robert Gray (1808), Patrick Geddes (1854), Robert Fortune (1812), Roderick Murchison (1792), Nehemiah Grew (1641), and Ian Wilmut (1944). After him are John Needham (1713), John Sulston (1942), William Speirs Bruce (1867), John Maynard Smith (1920), Paul Nurse (1949), and William Hudson (1730).