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Joseph Banks

1743 - 1820

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Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, (24 February [O.S. 13 February] 1743 – 19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences.Banks made his name on the 1766 natural-history expedition to Newfoundland and Labrador. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768–1771), visiting Brazil, Tahiti, and after 6 months in New Zealand, Australia, returning to immediate fame. He held the position of president of the Royal Society for over 41 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Banks has received more than 906,485 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Banks is the 181st most popular biologist (down from 168th in 2019), the 1,143rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,104th in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joseph Banks ranks 181 out of 841Before him are Edward Tatum, Leland H. Hartwell, Antoine Béchamp, J. B. S. Haldane, Rudolf Vrba, and George Wald. After him are Ana Aslan, George Smith, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Charles Bell, and Friedrich Parrot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Joseph Banks ranks 18Before him are Carl Peter Thunberg, Edmund Cartwright, Nicolai Abildgaard, René Just Haüy, William I, Elector of Hesse, and Gavrila Derzhavin. After him are Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, William Paley, Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano, Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, and Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann. Among people deceased in 1820, Joseph Banks ranks 14Before him are François Joseph Lefebvre, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, Henri Christophe, Gia Long, Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange, and Manuel Belgrano. After him are Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark, Alexander Mackenzie, Jean-Lambert Tallien, Clement Mary Hofbauer, Augustin Barruel, and Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Banks ranks 1,143 out of 7,765Before him are Ealhswith (852), John Schlesinger (1926), Angus Deaton (1945), James Murray (1837), Simon Pegg (1970), and Jeremiah Horrocks (1618). After him are John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504), Adelard of Bath (1075), Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861), Victor Turner (1920), Annie Chapman (1841), and Evelyn Waugh (1903).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Joseph Banks ranks 28Before him are Martin Evans (1941), Desmond Morris (1928), Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), Anna Atkins (1799), Michael Houghton (1949), and J. B. S. Haldane (1892). After him are Charles Bell (1774), Henry Walter Bates (1825), John Boyd Orr (1880), Thomas Browne (1605), John Lindley (1799), and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817).