BIOLOGIST

Louisa Bolus

1877 - 1970

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Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus née Kensit (31 July 1877, Burgersdorp – 5 April 1970, Cape Town) was a South African botanist and taxonomist, and the longtime curator of the Bolus Herbarium, from 1903. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louisa Bolus has received more than 19,063 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Louisa Bolus is the 778th most popular biologist (up from 837th in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 130th in 2019) and the 5th most popular South African Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Louisa Bolus ranks 778 out of 1,097. Before her are William Thomas Blanford, Alfred G. Knudson, Hipólito Ruiz López, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Charlotte Auerbach, and Joseph Banks Rhine. After her are Peter Duesberg, Paul R. Ehrlich, Henry Baker, Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov, Aharon Katzir, and Frédéric de Lafresnaye.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Louisa Bolus ranks 156. Before her are Maud Wagner, Andrejs Upīts, Charles Collignon, Winifred McNair, Mari Beyleryan, and Johann Friedrich Höger. After her are Rudolph Dirks, Camillo Caccia Dominioni, Katherine Sophie Dreier, Marsden Hartley, Joseph Stella, and Bill Robinson. Among people deceased in 1970, Louisa Bolus ranks 206. Before her are Cyril Scott, Andrejs Upīts, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ernst Krebs, Slim Harpo, and John O'Hara. After her are Edward Everett Horton, Adam Rapacki, Panagiotis Pipinelis, Karel Pešek, Alexandros Chalkokondylis, and Fritz von Unruh.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Louisa Bolus ranks 117 out of 454. Before her are Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (1949), Bevil Rudd (1894), John McDowell (1942), Sharlto Copley (1973), Denis Goldberg (1933), and Pik Botha (1932). After her are Francois Pienaar (1967), Devdas Gandhi (1900), Tom Naudé (1889), Goodwill Zwelithini (1948), Gerald Dreyer (1929), and Cecil Kellaway (1890).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In South Africa

Among biologists born in South Africa, Louisa Bolus ranks 5. Before her are Max Theiler (1899), Sydney Brenner (1927), Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761), and Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907). After her are Austin Stevens (1950).

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