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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 128,981 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). John Stevens Henslow is the 376th most popular biologist (down from 335th in 2019), the 2,023rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,983rd in 2019) and the 54th most popular British Biologist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.18

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Stevens Henslow ranks 376 out of 1,097. Before him are Eugen Fischer, Daniel Solander, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, René Lesson, and Brian Kobilka. After him are Franz Xaver von Wulfen, Theodor Boveri, Nicolaas Laurens Burman, Joy Adamson, Antonio José Cavanilles, and Ludwig Reichenbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, John Stevens Henslow ranks 30. Before him are David Roberts, Carl Ludwig Blume, Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao, Karl Ernst Claus, Princess Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia, and Walter Hunt. After him are Johann Christian Poggendorff, Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky, Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, Abdullah Abdul Kadir, Manto Mavrogenous, and Horace Mann. Among people deceased in 1861, John Stevens Henslow ranks 36. Before him are Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Pierre Berthier, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Joachim Lelewel, Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov, and Karol Lipiński. After him are Albert Niemann, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Louis Niedermeyer, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz, Václav Hanka, and Infante João, Duke of Beja.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Stevens Henslow ranks 2,023 out of 8,785. Before him are Marjorie Boulton (1924), Hugh Dowding (1882), John Bull (1562), John Mills (1908), John Smeaton (1724), and Robert Smith (1959). After him are Gordon Milne (1937), Lesley Manville (1956), Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1310), Sadiq Khan (1970), Perry Anderson (1938), and John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Stevens Henslow ranks 54. Before him are John Sulston (1942), Rupert Sheldrake (1942), William Jackson Hooker (1785), Arthur Tansley (1871), John Gould (1804), and John Hughlings Jackson (1835). After him are Samuel Frederick Gray (1766), Roderick Murchison (1792), Robert Fortune (1812), James Edward Smith (1759), Gregory Winter (1951), and Marie Stopes (1880).

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