BIOLOGIST

Joy Adamson

1910 - 1980

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Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson (née Gessner; 20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, Born Free, describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Born Free was printed in several languages and made into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joy Adamson has received more than 880,058 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Joy Adamson is the 380th most popular biologist (down from 240th in 2019), the 587th most popular biography from Austria (down from 453rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Austrian Biologist.

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  • 880k

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  • 53.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joy Adamson ranks 380 out of 1,097. Before her are René Lesson, Brian Kobilka, John Stevens Henslow, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, Theodor Boveri, and Nicolaas Laurens Burman. After her are Antonio José Cavanilles, Ludwig Reichenbach, Samuel Frederick Gray, Roderick Murchison, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, and Julius von Sachs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Joy Adamson ranks 140. Before her are Scatman Crothers, Rachel Kempson, Josef Klaus, Josef Tal, Gerhard Schröder, and Wolfgang Preiss. After her are Louis Prima, Ernst Schäfer, Heinrich Sutermeister, Pierre Bézier, Magda Olivero, and Elmar Klos. Among people deceased in 1980, Joy Adamson ranks 124. Before her are Barbara O'Neil, Pietro Nenni, Cecil Beaton, Justas Paleckis, Sanjay Gandhi, and Leopold Kielholz. After her are Lucien Buysse, George Raft, José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones, Hellmuth Walter, Celia Sánchez, and Marian Spychalski.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Joy Adamson ranks 587 out of 1,424. Before her are Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of Austria (1868), Karl Schäfer (1909), Marianna Martines (1744), Carl Millöcker (1842), Infanta Blanca of Spain (1868), and Erich Probst (1927). After her are Egon Friedell (1878), Jörg Demus (1928), Nadja Tiller (1929), Antun Augustinčić (1900), Hans Rott (1858), and Herma Bauma (1915).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among biologists born in Austria, Joy Adamson ranks 10. Before her are Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901), Othenio Abel (1875), Leopold Fitzinger (1802), Clemens von Pirquet (1874), Erich von Tschermak (1871), and Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (1735). After her are Franz Unger (1800), Josef August Schultes (1773), Johann Natterer (1787), Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727), Richard Wettstein (1863), and Otto Stapf (1857).

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