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Leizu

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Leizu (Chinese: 嫘祖; pinyin: Léi Zǔ), also known as Xi Ling-shi (Chinese: 西陵氏, Wade–Giles Hsi Ling-shih), was a legendary Chinese empress and wife of the Yellow Emperor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leizu has received more than 176,746 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Leizu is the 330th most popular biologist (up from 339th in 2019), the 629th most popular biography from China (up from 639th in 2019) and the most popular Chinese Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Leizu ranks 330 out of 1,097. Before her are Michał Boym, Armen Takhtajan, Erich von Tschermak, Philibert Commerson, Auguste Chevalier, and Alexander von Nordmann. After her are George Ord, Hermann Burmeister, Motoo Kimura, Craig Venter, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, and Esther Lederberg.

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In China

Among people born in China, Leizu ranks 629 out of 1,610. Before her are Emperor Xuanwu of Northern Wei (483), Konstantin Rodzaevsky (1907), Lu Xiufu (1236), Muqi (1210), Ouyang Xun (557), and Chen Gongbo (1892). After her are Zhang Zeduan (1085), Zhou Daguan (1266), Sergei Stepashin (1952), Bo Yibo (1908), Ai Qing (1910), and Boris Blacher (1903).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In China

Among biologists born in China, Leizu ranks 1. After her are Yang Zhongjian (1897), Shi Zhengli (1964), Flossie Wong-Staal (1946), Xu Xing (1969), and Feng Zhang (1981).

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