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Nehemiah Grew

1641 - 1712

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Nehemiah Grew (26 September 1641 – 25 March 1712) was an English plant anatomist and physiologist, known as the "Father of Plant Anatomy". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nehemiah Grew has received more than 138,178 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Nehemiah Grew is the 237th most popular biologist (up from 324th in 2019), the 1,365th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,948th in 2019) and the 38th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 2.01

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nehemiah Grew ranks 237 out of 1,097. Before him are Charles M. Rice, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Ludwik Fleck, Carl Gustav Carus, Howard Martin Temin, and Vladimir Demikhov. After him are Lorenz Oken, James Rothman, Willi Hennig, Rudolf Vrba, Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, and William Aiton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1641, Nehemiah Grew ranks 7. Before him are Hyeonjong of Joseon, Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Tokugawa Ietsuna, Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, Regnier de Graaf, and Titus van Rijn. After him are Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, Nicolaes Witsen, Menno van Coehoorn, Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, and Dositheus II of Jerusalem. Among people deceased in 1712, Nehemiah Grew ranks 12. Before him are Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme, Bahadur Shah I, Nicolas Catinat, Louis, Duke of Brittany, Tokugawa Ienobu, and Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein. After him are Jan van der Heyden, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Baltacı Mehmet Pasha, Jan Luyken, Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and Juan Bautista Cabanilles.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Nehemiah Grew ranks 1,365 out of 8,785. Before him are George Cayley (1773), Geoff Hurst (1941), John Edensor Littlewood (1885), Edward Gordon Craig (1872), Reginald Johnston (1874), and Donovan (1946). After him are Kenneth E. Boulding (1910), Cicely Saunders (1918), Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810), Frederick Abel (1827), Hertha Ayrton (1854), and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Nehemiah Grew ranks 38. Before him are J. B. S. Haldane (1892), Thomas Browne (1605), Joseph Banks (1743), Desmond Morris (1928), Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942), and Michael Houghton (1949). After him are William Aiton (1731), Richard Henderson (1945), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), John Lindley (1799), Francis Darwin (1848), and Jack W. Szostak (1952).

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