BIOLOGIST

Mary Agnes Chase

1869 - 1963

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Mary Agnes Chase (April 29 1869 – September 24 1963) was an American botanist who specialized in agrostology, the study of grasses. Although lacking formal education past elementary school, Chase was able to rise through the ranks as a botanist at the United States Department of Agriculture, beginning as an illustrator under the tutelage of Albert Spear Hitchcock, and eventually becoming a senior botanist, overseeing the USDA's Systematic Agrostology department. Chase conducted fieldwork abroad in Europe and South America and published several books, including the First Book of Grasses: The Structure of Grasses Explained for Beginners, which was later translated into Spanish and Portuguese. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Agnes Chase has received more than 40,068 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Mary Agnes Chase is the 559th most popular biologist (down from 532nd in 2019), the 5,029th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,100th in 2019) and the 79th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.38

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  • 2.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Mary Agnes Chase ranks 559 out of 1,097. Before her are Salomon Müller, Johann Gerhard König, Oscar Hertwig, Edward Forbes, Andrew Smith, and Johannes Burman. After her are Karl Alfred von Zittel, Edward Turner Bennett, Barry Commoner, Abu al-Abbas al-Nabati, Sabiha Kasimati, and Eduard August von Regel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Mary Agnes Chase ranks 107. Before her are Johannes Linnankoski, Armas Järnefelt, Dmitri Egorov, Alice Hamilton, Marcel Cachin, and Ivan Aguéli. After her are Daniel Salamanca Urey, Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, Georgette Leblanc, Henry Carton de Wiart, Wilhelm Heye, and Ellen Thesleff. Among people deceased in 1963, Mary Agnes Chase ranks 120. Before her are John Farrow, Benny Moré, Gustav Machatý, Jean Decoux, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, and Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven. After her are August Rei, Aleksandr Gauk, Louis Bastien, Henry Daniell, Aleksandr Gerasimov, and Ulises Saucedo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Agnes Chase ranks 5,029 out of 20,380. Before her are Adlai Stevenson II (1900), Myrtle Bachelder (1908), Mark Milley (1958), George Sidney (1916), Joan Osborne (1962), and George Burns (1896). After her are Rhonda Fleming (1923), Ty Burrell (1967), Safdie brothers (null), Gale Sondergaard (1899), Mary Kenneth Keller (1913), and Abella Danger (1995).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Mary Agnes Chase ranks 79. Before her are Theodore Gill (1837), Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835), Arthur Cronquist (1919), Frederic Clements (1874), Craig Mello (1960), and Alice Hamilton (1869). After her are Barry Commoner (1917), Sewall Wright (1889), Harold E. Varmus (1939), Garrett Hardin (1915), Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858), and Jack Horner (1946).

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