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John Torrey

1796 - 1873

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John Torrey (August 15, 1796 – March 10, 1873) was an American botanist, chemist, and physician. Throughout much of his career, he was a teacher of chemistry, often at multiple universities, while he also pursued botanical work, focusing on the flora of North America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Torrey has received more than 53,685 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). John Torrey is the 860th most popular biologist (down from 753rd in 2019), the 8,972nd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,511th in 2019) and the 125th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Torrey ranks 860 out of 841Before him are William Beebe, Gilbert White, George Engelmann, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Joshua Brookes, and Alister Hardy. After him are George Montagu, C. B. van Niel, Charles Sibley, Frank Chapman, Carl Fredrik Fallén, and Carl Eduard Hellmayr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, John Torrey ranks 60Before him are John M. Clayton, Pyotr Anjou, Joseph Meyer, Nikolai Turczaninow, George Back, and Robert Wight. After him are John Bell and Henry De la Beche. Among people deceased in 1873, John Torrey ranks 73Before him are Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Charles Allston Collins, Tekle Giyorgis II, George-Étienne Cartier, Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco, and Salustiano de Olózaga y Almandoz. After him are William J. Hardee, Sarah Moore Grimké, and John W. Geary.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Torrey ranks 8,972 out of 18,182Before him are Alfred Francis Russell (1817), Robert Pastorelli (1954), Debi Diamond (1965), John F. Kelly (1950), Mary Kay Place (1947), and Carly Fiorina (1954). After him are Dan Lauria (1947), Jerome Biffle (1928), Joseph Lamb (1887), Orlando Jones (1968), John Adair (1757), and Marston Morse (1892).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, John Torrey ranks 125Before him are Herbert Boyer (1936), Robert Ridgway (1850), Charles Horton Peck (1833), Janet Rowley (1925), William Beebe (1877), and Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858). After him are Charles Sibley (1917), Frank Chapman (1864), Charles B. Cory (1857), John Hopfield (1933), George R. Price (1922), and John Kunkel Small (1869).