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 968,140 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Marie Stopes is the 403rd most popular biologist (down from 279th in 2019), the 2,136th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,715th in 2019) and the 60th most popular British Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 970k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Marie Stopes ranks 403 out of 1,097. Before her are Martha Chase, Gregory Winter, Jean Cabanis, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Karl Möbius, and Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck. After her are Carl Borivoj Presl, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Emil Christian Hansen, Georg Eberhard Rumphius, Karl Eichwald, and Peter Artedi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Marie Stopes ranks 102. Before her are Johannes Aavik, Georg von Trapp, Arnold Gesell, Louis Charles Breguet, Fernand Feyaerts, and Sergei Natanovich Bernstein. After her are Fritz Bleyl, Tudor Arghezi, Frigyes Riesz, Lytton Strachey, Alfred J. Lotka, and Mirza Kuchik Khan. Among people deceased in 1958, Marie Stopes ranks 79. Before her are Tommy Taylor, Robert Donat, John Boland, Maurice Germot, Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, and Varvara Stepanova. After her are Salama Moussa, Yutaka Taniyama, Ronald Colman, Vittorio Ambrosio, Douglas Mawson, and Henry Kuttner.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Marie Stopes ranks 2,136 out of 8,785. Before her are Arnold Bax (1883), Rosamund Clifford (1150), Walter Pater (1839), John Hannah (1962), John Illsley (1949), and Lady Katherine Grey (1540). After her are G. M. B. Dobson (1889), Patrick Magee (1922), Nigel Hawthorne (1929), Ian Dury (1942), Dodie Smith (1896), and Rick Astley (1966).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Marie Stopes ranks 60. Before her are John Stevens Henslow (1796), Samuel Frederick Gray (1766), Roderick Murchison (1792), Robert Fortune (1812), James Edward Smith (1759), and Gregory Winter (1951). After her are John Needham (1713), George Robert Waterhouse (1810), William Speirs Bruce (1867), William Hudson (1730), Edward Daniel Clarke (1769), and June Almeida (1930).

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