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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 15,589 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Louisa Bolus is the 838th most popular biologist, the 131st most popular biography from South Africa and the 5th most popular South African Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Louisa Bolus ranks 838 out of 841Before her are Mary Katharine Brandegee, Keith Campbell, Ryuta Kawashima, Charles Frédéric Girard, George Ord, and Arthur Gardiner Butler. After her are Ardem Patapoutian, Gottlieb Haberlandt, Blasius Merrem, Alfred Romer, Frank Fenner, and Louis Fraser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Louisa Bolus ranks 157Before her are Karel Absolon, Tom Crean, Aleksandr Arbuzov, Katherine Sophie Dreier, Victor Willems, and Gian Giorgio Trissino. After her are Oscar Grégoire, Ervin Mészáros, Malcolm Whitman, William Beebe, Winifred McNair, and Thomas C. Hart. Among people deceased in 1970, Louisa Bolus ranks 214Before her are Irene Guest, Gypsy Rose Lee, Stefan Andres, Sean Flynn, Daniel Kinsey, and Arne Nyberg. After her are Jacob Viner, Käthe Krauss, Leandro Faggin, Conrad Nagel, Matthias Heidemann, and Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Louisa Bolus ranks 131 out of 374Before her are Janet Suzman (1939), Eddie Kramer (1942), Mangosuthu Buthelezi (1928), Cariba Heine (1988), Paddy Driver (1934), and Neill Blomkamp (1979). After her are Wilfrid Napier (1941), Johan Kriek (1958), David Carstens (1914), Jackie Pretorius (1934), Belle Delphine (1999), and Frew McMillan (1942).

Among BIOLOGISTS In South Africa

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