BIOLOGIST

Michael Sars

1805 - 1869

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Michael Sars (30 August 1805 – 22 October 1869) was a Norwegian theologian and biologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Sars has received more than 36,627 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Sars is the 924th most popular biologist (down from 802nd in 2019), the 427th most popular biography from Norway (down from 350th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Norwegian Biologist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Michael Sars ranks 924 out of 1,097. Before him are George Engelmann, William Sherard, Johan Lange, Wilfred Hudson Osgood, Osamu Hayaishi, and Victor Motschulsky. After him are William Henry Harvey, Shi Zhengli, Walter Migula, John Hopfield, Gerrit Smith Miller, and Tokiharu Abe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Michael Sars ranks 74. Before him are Tomás Frías, Alexander Burnes, Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, William Harrison Ainsworth, Samuel Palmer, and James Wilson. After him are Salustiano de Olózaga y Almandoz, Horatio Greenough, Angelina Grimké, Samuel Ryan Curtis, and Frederick Denison Maurice. Among people deceased in 1869, Michael Sars ranks 62. Before him are José Hilario López, Peter Mark Roget, Diomidis Kyriakos, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, Robert J. Walker, and Charles Sturt. After him are John Bell, Mary Ward, Afzal-ud-Daulah, John Cassin, William P. Fessenden, and Edward Bates.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Michael Sars ranks 427 out of 1,039. Before him are Sten Stensen (1947), Anette Bøe (1957), Carl Gustav Fleischer (1883), Grethe Kausland (1947), Halvard Hanevold (1969), and Frithjof Ulleberg (1911). After him are Bent Hamer (1956), Greta Nissen (1906), Tora Berger (1981), Ernst Larsen (1926), Vigdis Hjorth (1959), and Lasse Kjus (1971).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Norway

Among biologists born in Norway, Michael Sars ranks 8. Before him are Johan Ernst Gunnerus (1718), Henrik Steffens (1773), Harald Sverdrup (1888), Kristine Bonnevie (1872), Georg Ossian Sars (1837), and Peter Ascanius (1723). After him are Leonhard Stejneger (1851), and Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen (1873).

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