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 651,404 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Joy Adamson is the 266th most popular biologist (down from 250th in 2019), the 458th most popular biography from Austria (down from 404th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Austrian Biologist.

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  • 65.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joy Adamson ranks 266 out of 844. Before her are Waldemar Haffkine, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, Wilder Penfield, Francisco Varela, Otto Friedrich Müller, and Alexander Georg von Bunge. After her are Emil Christian Hansen, Henri Milne-Edwards, August Grisebach, Carl Correns, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, and Wilhelm Peters.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Joy Adamson ranks 99. Before her are Howlin' Wolf, Sylvester Stadler, Helene Mayer, Hideo Shinojima, Giulietta Simionato, and Scatman Crothers. After her are Magda Olivero, Trygve Bratteli, Félix Candela, Artie Shaw, Bernard Voorhoof, and Fritz Leiber. Among people deceased in 1980, Joy Adamson ranks 90. Before her are Shigemaru Takenokoshi, Olga Chekhova, Farrokhroo Parsa, Dixie Dean, Lil Dagover, and Gabriel González Videla. After her are Josias Braun-Blanquet, Mohammed Rafi, Alexander Mach, Hiroshi Inagaki, Celia Sánchez, and Barbara O'Neil.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Joy Adamson ranks 458 out of 1,075. Before her are Sylvester Stadler (1910), Solomiya Krushelnytska (1872), Leopold Auenbrugger (1722), Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria (1895), Ilse Aichinger (1921), and Prince René of Bourbon-Parma (1894). After her are Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1638), Aurel Vlaicu (1882), Philipp Frank (1884), Ernst Krenek (1900), Guido Starhemberg (1657), and Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria (1917).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among biologists born in Austria, Joy Adamson ranks 5. Before her are Konrad Lorenz (1903), Karl Landsteiner (1868), Karl von Frisch (1886), and Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901). After her are Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (1735), Othenio Abel (1875), Erich von Tschermak (1871), Leopold Fitzinger (1802), Clemens von Pirquet (1874), Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás (1877), and Josef August Schultes (1773).

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