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BIOLOGIST

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 51,899 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Barcroft is the 847th most popular biologist, the 4,393rd most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 136th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joseph Barcroft ranks 847 out of 841Before him are Blasius Merrem, Alfred Romer, Frank Fenner, Louis Fraser, Prideaux John Selby, and Herbert Boyer. After him are Jules Pierre Rambur, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen, Robert Ridgway, Charles Horton Peck, Janet Rowley, and Mark Catesby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Joseph Barcroft ranks 161Before him are Giovanni Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano, Ivan Fomin, Julio Acosta García, Feliciano Viera, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, and Joseph Rosemeyer. After him are Dimitrios Drivas, Spyridon Chazapis, Siegfried Flesch, Maurice Larrouy, Lucille La Verne, and Harlan F. Stone. Among people deceased in 1947, Joseph Barcroft ranks 181Before him are Grantley Goulding, Ossi Oswalda, Tomás Berreta, Oscar Grégoire, Edwin Hedley, and Joseph Cook. After him are Evripidis Bakirtzis, Winston Churchill, Ercole Olgeni, Olive Borden, David Samanez Ocampo, and James Larkin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Barcroft ranks 4,393 out of 7,765Before him are Richie Hawtin (1970), George E. P. Box (1919), Darren Shan (1972), Stephen Morris (1957), Chris Thomas (1947), and Tony Barton (1937). After him are Emma Thomas (1971), Nick Rhodes (1962), Cherie Blair (1954), Leslie Marr (1922), Jack Rowley (1920), and Mark Blundell (1966).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Joseph Barcroft ranks 136Before him are Henry Baker (1698), William T. Stearn (1911), Keith Campbell (1954), Arthur Gardiner Butler (1844), Louis Fraser (1810), and Prideaux John Selby (1788). After him are Mark Catesby (1683), Gilbert White (1720), Alister Hardy (1896), George Montagu (1751), David Douglas (1799), and Charles Walter De Vis (1829).