BIOLOGIST

Joseph Rock

1884 - 1962

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Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1884 – 1962) was an Austrian-American botanist, explorer, geographer, linguist, ethnographer and photographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Rock has received more than 120,664 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Joseph Rock is the 827th most popular biologist (down from 653rd in 2019), the 943rd most popular biography from Austria (down from 772nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular Austrian Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joseph Rock ranks 827 out of 1,097. Before him are Jules Pierre Rambur, Charles Wallace Richmond, Alice Catherine Evans, William Hemsley, Johann Jakob Bernhardi, and John Jacob Abel. After him are Paul Henri Lecomte, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, Herbert Giles, Max Fürbringer, Sydney Parkinson, and Eduard von Martens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Joseph Rock ranks 204. Before him are Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, Fumio Gotō, Yrjö Saarela, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Jakub Szynkiewicz, and Sergey Gorodetsky. After him are Andrés Martínez Trueba, Pontus Hanson, Reinier Beeuwkes, Walther Schreiber, Arthur Edmund Carewe, and Linda Arvidson. Among people deceased in 1962, Joseph Rock ranks 178. Before him are Benny Paret, Nikolai Pogodin, Philippe Cattiau, William Clothier, Władysław Broniewski, and Georgina de Albuquerque. After him are Bruno Belin, Pontus Hanson, Lucile Watson, Fernand Rigaux, Seiichiro Kashio, and Solomon Linda.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Joseph Rock ranks 943 out of 1,424. Before him are Kiki Kogelnik (1935), Erich Hof (1936), Ferdinand von Saar (1833), Alfred Hrdlicka (1928), Heinz-Christian Strache (1969), and Robert Körner (1924). After him are Melitta Brunner (1907), Michael Häupl (1949), Rupert Hollaus (1931), Robert Kalina (1955), Johann Berger (1845), and Ferdinand Kiefler (1913).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among biologists born in Austria, Joseph Rock ranks 19. Before him are Johann Natterer (1787), Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727), Richard Wettstein (1863), Otto Stapf (1857), Franz Steindachner (1834), and Pál Kitaibel (1757). After him are Carl Eduard Hellmayr (1878), and Angelika Amon (1967).

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