BIOLOGIST

Patrick Geddes

1854 - 1932

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Sir Patrick Geddes (2 October 1854 – 17 April 1932) was a Scottish biologist, sociologist, Comtean positivist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner. He is known for his innovative thinking in the fields of urban planning and sociology. His works contain one of the earliest examples of the 'think globally, act locally' concept in social science. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Patrick Geddes has received more than 482,148 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Patrick Geddes is the 314th most popular biologist (down from 313th in 2019), the 1,754th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,884th in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Patrick Geddes ranks 314 out of 1,097. Before him are Pieter Boddaert, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Josias Braun-Blanquet, Lev Berg, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and Anton Reichenow. After him are Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, Otto Friedrich Müller, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, John Sulston, Rupert Sheldrake, and Bruce Beutler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Patrick Geddes ranks 49. Before him are Lady Randolph Churchill, John Philip Sousa, Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia, Stefan Stambolov, Konstantin Jireček, and Benjamin Tucker. After him are Sergei Korsakoff, Viktor Dankl von Krasnik, Victor Babeș, Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, Anna Bilińska, and Charles Angrand. Among people deceased in 1932, Patrick Geddes ranks 53. Before him are René-Louis Baire, Kenneth Grahame, Ignaz Seipel, Louis Anquetin, Harriet Backer, and King C. Gillette. After him are Peg Entwistle, Nureddin Pasha, Farabundo Martí, Pēteris Stučka, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, and Frederick Jackson Turner.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Patrick Geddes ranks 1,754 out of 8,785. Before him are Kim Wilde (1960), Antony Beevor (1946), William Auld (1924), Pieter de Molijn (1595), Fergus Suter (1857), and Thom Yorke (1968). After him are Henry Maudslay (1771), Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester (1215), John Flaxman (1755), Archibald Leitch (1865), Leonard Woolf (1880), and Sigfrid of Sweden (1000).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Patrick Geddes ranks 47. Before him are Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), John Lindley (1799), Francis Darwin (1848), Jack W. Szostak (1952), John Maynard Smith (1920), and George Bentham (1800). After him are John Sulston (1942), Rupert Sheldrake (1942), William Jackson Hooker (1785), Arthur Tansley (1871), John Gould (1804), and John Hughlings Jackson (1835).

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