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Peter Ascanius

1723 - 1803

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Peter Ascanius (24 May 1723 – 4 June 1803) was a Norwegian-Danish biologist and geologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Ascanius has received more than 41,932 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Ascanius is the 894th most popular biologist (up from 942nd in 2019), the 405th most popular biography from Norway (up from 546th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Norwegian Biologist.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Peter Ascanius ranks 894 out of 1,097. Before him are Dukinfield Henry Scott, Richard Evans Schultes, David Goodall, Charles Frédéric Girard, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky, and Carl Fredrik Fallén. After him are Clinton Hart Merriam, Yasutomi Nishizuka, Otto Bütschli, Wilhem de Haan, Francis Willughby, and Thomas Say.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Peter Ascanius ranks 30. Before him are Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, William Livingston, John Byron, Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet, Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes, and Richard Price. After him is Crispus Attucks. Among people deceased in 1803, Peter Ascanius ranks 40. Before him are Peter Woulfe, Georges-Louis Le Sage, François Marie Daudin, Lemuel Francis Abbott, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, and Nikolay Lvov. After him are Robert Emmet, and Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Peter Ascanius ranks 405 out of 1,039. Before him are Jan Johansen (1944), Øivind Holmsen (1912), Sigurd Jørgensen (1887), Jan Egil Storholt (1949), Ian Haugland (1964), and Petter Hugsted (1921). After him are Geirr Tveitt (1908), Ole Lilloe-Olsen (1883), Isak Saba (1875), Hallvard Vebjørnsson (1020), Georg Selenius (1884), and Erling Evensen (1914).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Norway

Among biologists born in Norway, Peter Ascanius ranks 7. Before him are Martin Vahl (1749), Johan Ernst Gunnerus (1718), Henrik Steffens (1773), Harald Sverdrup (1888), Kristine Bonnevie (1872), and Georg Ossian Sars (1837). After him are Michael Sars (1805), Leonhard Stejneger (1851), and Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen (1873).

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