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Joseph Barcroft

1872 - 1947

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Sir Joseph Barcroft (26 July 1872 – 21 March 1947) was a British physiologist best known for his studies of the oxygenation of blood. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Barcroft has received more than 55,915 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Barcroft is the 938th most popular biologist (down from 846th in 2019), the 4,647th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,384th in 2019) and the 147th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joseph Barcroft ranks 938 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Wilhelm Meigen, Lucy Shapiro, Robert Wight, Aylmer Bourke Lambert, William Beebe, and Johann Friedrich Adam. After him are Thomas Pennant, Lilian Gibbs, Rudolf Schlechter, William Murrill, Nigel Marven, and Elizabeth F. Neufeld.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Joseph Barcroft ranks 179. Before him are Bernard Knubel, Octav Băncilă, William Desmond Taylor, Dimitrios Drivas, Anna Held, and Abdullah Yusuf Ali. After him are Rudolf Schlechter, Sidney Olcott, James Young, Horace Rice, Siegfried Flesch, and Harald Natvig. Among people deceased in 1947, Joseph Barcroft ranks 194. Before him are Charles Gondouin, Yngvar Bryn, Julio Lores, Kálmán Tihanyi, Almroth Wright, and Wilfred Hudson Osgood. After him are Georg Hoffmann, Joseph Cook, Ercole Olgeni, David Samanez Ocampo, José Luis Tamayo, and Evripidis Bakirtzis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Barcroft ranks 4,647 out of 8,785. Before him are David Arnold (1962), Malcolm Bradbury (1932), Trevor Goddard (1962), Gerry Hitchens (1934), Keith Levene (1957), and Long John Baldry (1941). After him are Flora Drummond (1878), Moira Shearer (1926), James Thornhill (1675), Les Ferdinand (1966), Emily Davies (1830), and Alistair Petrie (1970).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Joseph Barcroft ranks 147. Before him are Mark Catesby (1683), Edward Newton (1832), William Sherard (1659), Richard Thomas Lowe (1802), Robert Wight (1796), and Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761). After him are Thomas Pennant (1726), Lilian Gibbs (1870), Nigel Marven (1960), Charles Walter De Vis (1829), Irene Manton (1904), and Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811).

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