BIOLOGIST

Mary Elizabeth Barber

1818 - 1899

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Mary Elizabeth Barber (5 January 1818 – 4 September 1899) was a pioneering British-born amateur scientist of the nineteenth century. Without formal education, she made a name for herself in botany, ornithology and entomology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Elizabeth Barber has received more than 22,328 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Elizabeth Barber is the 796th most popular biologist (down from 654th in 2019), the 3,892nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,333rd in 2019) and the 109th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 46.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Mary Elizabeth Barber ranks 796 out of 1,097. Before her are Philipp Christoph Zeller, Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, Karel Domin, Alfred Romer, Thomas Andrew Knight, and Amalie Dietrich. After her are Jacques Miller, William Townsend Aiton, Francisco Manuel Blanco, Jean Baptiste Boisduval, Marie-Anne Libert, and Robert Trivers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Mary Elizabeth Barber ranks 88. Before her are Ilya Berezin, Dimitrie Brătianu, Henry Litolff, Heinrich Zollinger, Ludwig Traube, and Nikolay Milyutin. After her are Alexander Dreyschock, Benjamin Butler, József Szlávy, Joseph Weydemeyer, Don Carlos Buell, and Juana Manuela Gorriti. Among people deceased in 1899, Mary Elizabeth Barber ranks 75. Before her are Klaus Groth, Kaʻiulani, Horatio Alger, Karolina Světlá, Gaëtan de Rochebouët, and Grant Allen. After her are Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Princess Marie of Baden, Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg, Wendela Hebbe, Monier Monier-Williams, and Édouard Pailleron.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Elizabeth Barber ranks 3,892 out of 8,785. Before her are John Ogdon (1937), Tommy Green (1894), Stuart McCall (1964), Lambert Simnel (1477), Clara Reeve (1729), and Ken Wharton (1916). After her are Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (1000), Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife (1849), Mark Owen (1972), Princess Sophia of Gloucester (1773), George Williams (1821), and David McKee (1935).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Mary Elizabeth Barber ranks 109. Before her are John Gerard (1545), Albert Bruce Jackson (1876), James Sowerby (1757), William Thomas Blanford (1832), Henry Baker (1698), and Thomas Andrew Knight (1759). After her are William Townsend Aiton (1766), Alec Jeffreys (1950), Thomas Thomson (1817), George Edwards (1694), William Hemsley (1843), and Herbert Giles (1845).

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