BIOLOGIST

Mark Catesby

1683 - 1749

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Mark Catesby (24 March 1683 – 23 December 1749) was an English naturalist who studied the flora and fauna of the New World. Between 1729 and 1747, Catesby published his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, the first published account of the flora and fauna of North America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mark Catesby has received more than 95,970 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Mark Catesby is the 915th most popular biologist (down from 852nd in 2019), the 4,499th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,436th in 2019) and the 141st most popular British Biologist.

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  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Mark Catesby ranks 915 out of 1,097. Before him are Ann Bishop, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, G. Ledyard Stebbins, Nikolai Turczaninow, Jan-Just Bos, and Wilhelm Philippe Schimper. After him are Jon E. Ahlquist, Edward Newton, George Engelmann, William Sherard, Johan Lange, and Wilfred Hudson Osgood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1683, Mark Catesby ranks 22. Before him are Antoine Pesne, Lorenz Heister, Christian Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Giovanni Poleni, Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller, and Jonathan Wild.  Among people deceased in 1749, Mark Catesby ranks 16. Before him are Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, Matthias Bel, André Cardinal Destouches, Jan Frans van Bloemen, Shahu I, and Catharine Trotter Cockburn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mark Catesby ranks 4,499 out of 8,785. Before him are Bernard Lovell (1913), Richard Knill Freeman (1840), Ken Matthews (1934), Simon Baron-Cohen (1958), Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster (1951), and Jamie Bell (1986). After him are Emily Hobhouse (1860), Luke Goss (1968), Edward Newton (1832), James Frain (1968), Morton Betts (1847), and Geoffrey de Havilland (1882).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Mark Catesby ranks 141. Before him are David Goodall (1914), Francis Willughby (1635), Robert Morison (1620), William Yarrell (1784), Thomas Nuttall (1786), and Ann Bishop (1899). After him are Edward Newton (1832), William Sherard (1659), Richard Thomas Lowe (1802), Robert Wight (1796), Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761), and Joseph Barcroft (1872).

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