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BIOLOGIST

Luther Burbank

1849 - 1926

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Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849 – April 11, 1926) was an American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science. He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank's developments included those of fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luther Burbank has received more than 752,327 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Luther Burbank is the 361st most popular biologist (up from 431st in 2019), the 3,566th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,936th in 2019) and the 61st most popular American Biologist.

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  • 52.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Luther Burbank ranks 361 out of 841. Before him are Paul Nurse, John Ellis, Nicolaas Laurens Burman, Pehr Kalm, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, and William Hudson. After him are Princess Therese of Bavaria, Oldfield Thomas, Conrad Moench, Francis Darwin, Francisco Hernández de Toledo, and Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Luther Burbank ranks 56. Before him are Agenor Maria Gołuchowski, Károly Khuen-Héderváry, William Ernest Henley, Benjamin Godard, Fritz Mauthner, and Sergei Ivanovich Mosin. After him are Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Ruy Barbosa, Jean Richepin, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Hertwig, and Albert Heim. Among people deceased in 1926, Luther Burbank ranks 59. Before him are Carlos Schwabe, Victor Babeș, Enrico Toselli, Bessie Coleman, Léon Charles Thévenin, and Bertha Wegmann. After him are Krste Misirkov, Hans von Koessler, Charles Angrand, Franz von Soxhlet, Josias von Heeringen, and Jean Richepin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Luther Burbank ranks 3,566 out of 18,182. Before him are Marsha Hunt (1917), Lou Henry Hoover (1874), Nicole Scherzinger (1978), Billie Eilish (2001), Syd Field (1935), and Gloria Leonard (1940). After him are Julie London (1926), Richard Bandler (1950), Mary Tyler Moore (1936), R. Budd Dwyer (1939), Robert Ford (1862), and Carla Gugino (1971).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Luther Burbank ranks 61. Before him are Joel Asaph Allen (1838), Phillip Allen Sharp (1944), Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), James Rothman (1950), Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), and Eugene Odum (1913). After him are Harold E. Varmus (1939), Barry Commoner (1917), Andrew Fire (1959), Brian Kobilka (1955), Martha Chase (1927), and James P. Allison (1948).

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