BIOLOGIST

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 58,962 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). John Torrey is the 855th most popular biologist (up from 859th in 2019), the 8,082nd most popular biography from United States (up from 8,954th in 2019) and the 117th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Torrey ranks 855 out of 1,097. Before him are Richard Anthony Salisbury, Robert Ridgway, Anne McLaren, Daniel Oliver, Joshua Brookes, and William Kirby. After him are William John Swainson, C. B. van Niel, Johannes Schmidt, Axel Gudbrand Blytt, Liberty Hyde Bailey, and Stanley Norman Cohen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, John Torrey ranks 62. Before him are Pyotr Anjou, Joseph Meyer, Frederick William Beechey, Phan Thanh Giản, John M. Clayton, and George Back. After him are Nikolai Turczaninow, Henry De la Beche, Robert Wight, John Bell, and Benjamin Bonneville. Among people deceased in 1873, John Torrey ranks 71. Before him are Fyodor Vasilyev, Alexei Fedchenko, Jules Verreaux, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Gustav Rose, and Robert McClure. After him are Stephen Mallory, Per Georg Scheutz, George-Étienne Cartier, Charles Allston Collins, Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco, and Johan Sebastian Welhaven.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Torrey ranks 8,082 out of 20,380. Before him are Faith Hill (1967), Richard Scarry (1919), Sara Gilbert (1975), Albert W. Hull (1880), Lori Petty (1963), and Jeffrey Eugenides (1960). After him are Peggy Wood (1892), Sarah Yorke Jackson (1803), Grace Park (1974), Story Musgrave (1935), Laura Poitras (1964), and David Koepp (1963).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, John Torrey ranks 117. Before him are Charles Wallace Richmond (1868), Alice Catherine Evans (1881), John Jacob Abel (1857), Judah Folkman (1933), Mary Katharine Brandegee (1844), and Robert Ridgway (1850). After him are Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858), Stanley Norman Cohen (1935), Charles Horton Peck (1833), Charles Conrad Abbott (1843), Sam Harris (1967), and Benjamin Smith Barton (1766).

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