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BIOLOGIST

Marie Stopes

1880 - 1958

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Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (15 October 1880 – 2 October 1958) was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant paleontology and coal classification, and was the first female academic on the faculty of the University of Manchester. With her second husband, Humphrey Verdon Roe, Stopes founded the first birth control clinic in Britain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie Stopes has received more than 915,988 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Marie Stopes is the 280th most popular biologist (up from 413th in 2019), the 1,720th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,188th in 2019) and the 41st most popular British Biologist.

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  • 54.35

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Marie Stopes ranks 280 out of 841Before her are Carl Hagenbeck, Arthur Tansley, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Jacob Christian Schäffer, and Alexander von Middendorff. After her are Johann Bauhin, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, Vladimir Demikhov, Pierre Edmond Boissier, and Wilhelm Peters.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Marie Stopes ranks 79Before her are Ivar Kreuger, Hermann von Keyserling, Eric Campbell, Jan Kubelík, Arnold Gesell, and Sholem Asch. After her are Carl Van Vechten, Leon Rupnik, Waldemar Bonsels, Kōdō Sawaki, Archie Hahn, and Mihail Sadoveanu. Among people deceased in 1958, Marie Stopes ranks 59Before her are 'Abd al-Ilah, Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium, Claire Lee Chennault, Ivan Yefimovich Petrov, Johannes R. Becher, and Ernest Jones. After her are Pierre-Étienne Flandin, Stuart Lewis-Evans, José Miaja, Rudolf Rocker, Grigory Petrovsky, and Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Marie Stopes ranks 1,720 out of 7,765Before her are Miranda Richardson (1958), Phil Jones (1992), Geoff Hurst (1941), James Finlayson (1887), Richard Aldington (1892), and Peter Vaughan (1923). After her are Robert Morrison (1782), J. Lee Thompson (1914), Dixie Dean (1907), Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (1768), Rick Parfitt (1948), and John Watson (1946).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Marie Stopes ranks 41Before her are George Shaw (1751), Rupert Sheldrake (1942), James Edward Smith (1759), June Almeida (1930), Arthur Tansley (1871), and Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942). After her are John Hughlings Jackson (1835), John Gould (1804), Jack W. Szostak (1952), Richard Henderson (1945), George Robert Gray (1808), and Patrick Geddes (1854).