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Joseph Leidy

1823 - 1891

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Joseph Mellick Leidy (September 9, 1823 – April 30, 1891) was an American paleontologist, parasitologist and anatomist. Leidy was professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, later becoming a professor of natural history at Swarthmore College and the director of scientific and educational programs at the Wagner Free Institute of Science. His book Extinct Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska (1869) contained many species not previously described and many previously unknown on the North American continent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Leidy has received more than 178,307 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Joseph Leidy is the 713th most popular biologist (down from 663rd in 2019), the 6,529th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,355th in 2019) and the 98th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joseph Leidy ranks 713 out of 1,097. Before him are Philip Barker-Webb, Curt Backeberg, Josephine Kablick, George Newbold Lawrence, Friedrich Reinitzer, and François Marie Daudin. After him are Richard Wettstein, André Thouin, Albert Bernhard Frank, Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, Johan Andreas Murray, and Angela Piskernik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Joseph Leidy ranks 67. Before him are Eduard Oscar Schmidt, John Evans, Daniel Harrwitz, Gonçalves Dias, Ernest Reyer, and Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent. After him are Dmitry Tolstoy, Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, William M. Tweed, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Robert Whitehead, and Guillermo Tell Villegas. Among people deceased in 1891, Joseph Leidy ranks 88. Before him are János Simor, Staka Skenderova, August von Pelzeln, Joseph Roumanille, Sarah Childress Polk, and Domenico Agostini. After him are Karl Maximovich, Emma Abbott, George Washington Williams, Giovanni Caselli, Constantine Paparrigopoulos, and Henry Litolff.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Leidy ranks 6,529 out of 20,380. Before him are May McAvoy (1899), Brian Doyle-Murray (1945), Susan Brownmiller (1935), Millie Perkins (1938), Bob Falkenburg (1926), and Lana Clarkson (1962). After him are Norbert Schemansky (1924), Mark Henry (1971), Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942), John D. MacDonald (1916), Daniel Pipes (1949), and Trish Van Devere (1941).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Joseph Leidy ranks 98. Before him are Walter Sutton (1877), David Starr Jordan (1851), Samuel Garman (1843), Jane Colden (1724), Richard Lewontin (1929), and George Newbold Lawrence (1806). After him are Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890), James L. Peters (1889), Neil Campbell (1946), Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823), Alfred G. Knudson (1922), and Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859).

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