BIOLOGIST

Joseph Dalton Hooker

1817 - 1911

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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Dalton Hooker has received more than 482,617 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Joseph Dalton Hooker is the 255th most popular biologist (down from 242nd in 2019), the 1,433rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,540th in 2019) and the 41st most popular British Biologist.

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  • 62.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joseph Dalton Hooker ranks 255 out of 1,097. Before him are Henri Milne-Edwards, Richard Henderson, Alexander Georg von Bunge, Morten Thrane Brünnich, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, and Pierre Gaspard Chaumette. After him are Eduard Rüppell, Michael Rosbash, Carol W. Greider, Sergei Winogradsky, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, and Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Joseph Dalton Hooker ranks 25. Before him are Hermann Lotze, C. H. D. Buys Ballot, Albert von Kölliker, Branwell Brontë, Táhirih, and Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. After him are Antonio de Torres Jurado, Princess Marie Amelie of Baden, János Arany, Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, Carl Nägeli, and Mihail Kogălniceanu. Among people deceased in 1911, Joseph Dalton Hooker ranks 29. Before him are Jack Daniel, Sister Nivedita, Johan Svendsen, Jules Brunet, Christian Bohr, and Williamina Fleming. After him are Alexandre Guilmant, George Johnstone Stoney, Félix Ziem, James Curtis Hepburn, Sam Loyd, and Ernst Brenner.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Dalton Hooker ranks 1,433 out of 8,785. Before him are Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1673), Ethel Smyth (1858), Alan Baker (1939), Alison Steadman (1946), Rhys Ifans (1967), and Evelyn De Morgan (1855). After him are Claire Forlani (1971), Andy Summers (1942), Robert Wyatt (1945), Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1944), Alvin Lee (1944), and Elvis Costello (1954).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Joseph Dalton Hooker ranks 41. Before him are Desmond Morris (1928), Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942), Michael Houghton (1949), Nehemiah Grew (1641), William Aiton (1731), and Richard Henderson (1945). After him are John Lindley (1799), Francis Darwin (1848), Jack W. Szostak (1952), John Maynard Smith (1920), George Bentham (1800), and Patrick Geddes (1854).

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