BIOLOGIST

Norman I. Platnick

1951 - 2020

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Norman Ira Platnick (December 30, 1951 – April 8, 2020) was an American biological systematist and arachnologist. At the time of his death, he was a professor emeritus of the Richard Gilder Graduate School and Peter J. Solomon Family Curator Emeritus of the invertebrate zoology department of the American Museum of Natural History. A 1973 Ph.D. recipient at Harvard University, Platnick described over 1,800 species of spiders from around the world, making him the second most prolific spider taxonomist in history, behind only Eugène Simon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Norman I. Platnick has received more than 44,792 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Norman I. Platnick is the 1,021st most popular biologist (down from 925th in 2019), the 11,650th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,920th in 2019) and the 161st most popular American Biologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Norman I. Platnick ranks 1,021 out of 1,097. Before him are Alexander Wilson, Elliott Coues, Christian Friedrich Ecklon, Rosa Smith Eigenmann, Edward William Nelson, and Roger Revelle. After him are Charles Sprague Sargent, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Albert Charles Smith, Walter Buller, Ilkka Hanski, and Karl Shuker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Norman I. Platnick ranks 596. Before him are Rubén Cano, Edward Albert, Burglinde Pollak, Alan Minter, Fred Schneider, and Jaime Mayor Oreja. After him are Thomas Akers, John Glascock, Jürgen Rüttgers, Françoise Nyssen, Hans Bongartz, and James Patrick Kelly. Among people deceased in 2020, Norman I. Platnick ranks 714. Before him are Alan Minter, Aurlus Mabélé, Kalevi Oikarainen, Mike Moore, Balbir Singh Sr., and J. I. Packer. After him are Ephrem M'Bom, Tony Waiters, Kinuko Tanida, Anicetus Bongsu Antonius Sinaga, Alfredo Lim, and Imre Farkas.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Norman I. Platnick ranks 11,650 out of 20,380. Before him are Mike Mansfield (1903), Caroline Williams (1957), S. E. Hinton (1948), Arnie Oliver (1907), Roger Revelle (1909), and Tory Belleci (1970). After him are Joel Osteen (1963), Aisha Hinds (1975), Tommy Roe (1942), Nancy Kyes (1949), Ellie Greenwich (1940), and Martin Milner (1931).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Norman I. Platnick ranks 161. Before him are Timothy Ray Brown (1966), John Bartram (1699), Elliott Coues (1842), Rosa Smith Eigenmann (1858), Edward William Nelson (1855), and Roger Revelle (1909). After him are Charles Sprague Sargent (1841), Albert Charles Smith (1906), Elmer McCollum (1879), Henry Weed Fowler (1878), Outram Bangs (1863), and William Bartram (1739).

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