1810 - 1888
Philip Henry Gosse (; 6 April 1810 – 23 August 1888), known to his friends as Henry, was an English naturalist and populariser of natural science, an early improver of the seawater aquarium, and a painstaking innovator in the study of marine biology. Gosse created and stocked the first public aquarium at the London Zoo in 1853, and coined the term "aquarium" when he published the first manual, The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea, in 1854. His work was the catalyst for an aquarium craze in early Victorian England.Gosse was also the author of Omphalos, an attempt to reconcile the geological ages presupposed by Charles Lyell with the biblical account of creation. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philip Henry Gosse has received more than 148,515 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Philip Henry Gosse is the 536th most popular biologist (up from 546th in 2019), the 2,815th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,706th in 2019) and the 74th most popular British Biologist.
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Among biologists, Philip Henry Gosse ranks 536 out of 841. Before him are Euclides da Cunha, Tsuneko Okazaki, Robert Sapolsky, Mary Agnes Chase, Max Carl Wilhelm Weber, and Johannes Thiele. After him are Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Eugène Simon, Karl Rudolphi, Jean de Thévenot, João de Loureiro, and Ludwig Diels.
1866 - 1909
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 530
1933 - Present
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 531
1957 - Present
HPI: 49.24
Rank: 532
1869 - 1963
HPI: 49.21
Rank: 533
1852 - 1937
HPI: 49.20
Rank: 534
1860 - 1935
HPI: 49.18
Rank: 535
1810 - 1888
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 536
1783 - 1840
HPI: 49.13
Rank: 537
1848 - 1924
HPI: 49.11
Rank: 538
1771 - 1832
HPI: 49.10
Rank: 539
1633 - 1667
HPI: 49.09
Rank: 540
1717 - 1791
HPI: 49.08
Rank: 541
1874 - 1945
HPI: 49.06
Rank: 542
Among people born in 1810, Philip Henry Gosse ranks 57. Before him are Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, Maurice de Guérin, Giovanni Lanza, L. L. Langstroth, George Robert Waterhouse, and Eugène Belgrand. After him are Ferdinand Freiligrath, William Froude, Andrew Scott Waugh, Miklós Barabás, Johan August Wahlberg, and Fritz Reuter. Among people deceased in 1888, Philip Henry Gosse ranks 64. Before him are Jules Émile Planchon, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, François Perrier, Amos Bronson Alcott, George Robert Waterhouse, and Anna Kingsford. After him are Asa Gray, Carl Christian Hall, Francesco Faà di Bruno, Charles Duclerc, Alessandro Antonelli, and Jan van Beers.
1810 - 1887
HPI: 50.05
Rank: 51
1810 - 1839
HPI: 49.86
Rank: 52
1810 - 1882
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 53
1810 - 1895
HPI: 49.64
Rank: 54
1810 - 1888
HPI: 49.36
Rank: 55
1810 - 1878
HPI: 49.19
Rank: 56
1810 - 1888
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 57
1810 - 1876
HPI: 48.93
Rank: 58
1810 - 1879
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 59
1810 - 1878
HPI: 48.64
Rank: 60
1810 - 1898
HPI: 48.46
Rank: 61
1810 - 1856
HPI: 48.43
Rank: 62
1810 - 1874
HPI: 48.43
Rank: 63
1823 - 1888
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 58
1845 - 1888
HPI: 49.80
Rank: 59
1833 - 1888
HPI: 49.75
Rank: 60
1799 - 1888
HPI: 49.37
Rank: 61
1810 - 1888
HPI: 49.36
Rank: 62
1846 - 1888
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 63
1810 - 1888
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 64
1810 - 1888
HPI: 48.40
Rank: 65
1812 - 1888
HPI: 48.24
Rank: 66
1825 - 1888
HPI: 48.03
Rank: 67
1812 - 1888
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 68
1798 - 1888
HPI: 46.88
Rank: 69
1821 - 1888
HPI: 46.48
Rank: 70
Among people born in United Kingdom, Philip Henry Gosse ranks 2,815 out of 7,765. Before him are Hubert Parry (1848), Brian Blessed (1936), Rosamund Clifford (1150), Peter Banks (1947), Arthur Aikin (1773), and Henry de Bracton (1210). After him are Galyani Vadhana (1923), Stanley Baker (1928), Richard Bright (1789), Abhisit Vejjajiva (1964), Mark Sheppard (1964), and Teresa Ann Savoy (1955).
1848 - 1918
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 2,809
1936 - Present
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 2,810
1150 - 1176
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 2,811
1947 - 2013
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 2,812
1773 - 1854
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 2,813
1210 - 1268
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 2,814
1810 - 1888
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 2,815
1923 - 2008
HPI: 49.14
Rank: 2,816
1928 - 1976
HPI: 49.14
Rank: 2,817
1789 - 1858
HPI: 49.14
Rank: 2,818
1964 - Present
HPI: 49.14
Rank: 2,819
1964 - Present
HPI: 49.12
Rank: 2,820
1955 - 2017
HPI: 49.12
Rank: 2,821
Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Philip Henry Gosse ranks 74. Before him are Reginald Punnett (1875), Samuel Frederick Gray (1766), Anna Russell (1807), Patrick Manson (1844), Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847), and George Robert Waterhouse (1810). After him are John Gilbert Baker (1834), John Anderson (1833), Anne McLaren (1927), William Withering (1741), Edward Turner Bennett (1797), and Charles Wyville Thomson (1830).
1875 - 1967
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 68
1766 - 1828
HPI: 49.72
Rank: 69
1807 - 1876
HPI: 49.58
Rank: 70
1844 - 1922
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 71
1847 - 1909
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 72
1810 - 1888
HPI: 49.36
Rank: 73
1810 - 1888
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 74
1834 - 1920
HPI: 48.97
Rank: 75
1833 - 1900
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 76
1927 - 2007
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 77
1741 - 1799
HPI: 48.32
Rank: 78
1797 - 1836
HPI: 48.06
Rank: 79
1830 - 1882
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 80