BIOLOGIST

Luther Burbank

1849 - 1926

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Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849 – April 11, 1926), an American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science, developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank worked with (for example) fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables. He developed (but did not create) a spineless cactus (useful for cattle-feed) and the plumcot. Burbank's most successful strains and varieties included the Shasta daisy, the fire poppy (note possible confusion with the California wildflower, Papaver californicum, which is also called a "fire poppy"), the "July Elberta" peach, the "Santa Rosa" plum, the "Flaming Gold" nectarine, the "Wickson" plum (named after the agronomist Edward J. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luther Burbank has received more than 808,384 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Luther Burbank is the 445th most popular biologist (down from 360th in 2019), the 4,031st most popular biography from United States (down from 3,556th in 2019) and the 67th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Luther Burbank ranks 445 out of 1,097. Before him are Alwin Berger, Takenoshin Nakai, William Hudson, Edward Daniel Clarke, Heinrich Boie, and Zhores Medvedev. After him are Heinrich Schrader, Friedrich Boie, Alfred Grandidier, Heinrich Kuhl, Georg August Goldfuss, and Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Luther Burbank ranks 61. Before him are Jean Richepin, Mohammad Yaqub Khan, Ruy Barbosa, William Ernest Henley, Károly Khuen-Héderváry, and Edmund Barton. After him are Nikolai Nebogatov, Albert Heim, Olena Pchilka, Charles F. Brush, Ferdinand Brunetière, and Emma Lazarus. Among people deceased in 1926, Luther Burbank ranks 63. Before him are Albert Robida, Carlos Schwabe, Enrico Toselli, Jean Richepin, Krste Misirkov, and Georges Vézina. After him are Louis Majorelle, Bertha Wegmann, Franz von Soxhlet, William Larned, Sanford B. Dole, and Hans von Koessler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Luther Burbank ranks 4,031 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Geschke (1939), T-Bone Walker (1910), Jennifer Tilly (1958), Harvey Cushing (1869), Denis O'Hare (1962), and Ambrose Burnside (1824). After him are Charles W. Gilmore (1874), Patrick Henry (1736), Robert David Hall (1947), Vince Vaughn (1970), Gary Kildall (1942), and Kate Hudson (1979).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Luther Burbank ranks 67. Before him are Wilder Penfield (1891), Andrew Fire (1959), Joel Asaph Allen (1838), Robert Gallo (1937), Brian Kobilka (1955), and Martha Chase (1927). After him are Eugene Odum (1913), Robert Sapolsky (1957), Aldo Leopold (1887), Elmer Drew Merrill (1876), Francis Collins (1950), and Theodore Gill (1837).

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