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BIOLOGIST

Philip Henry Gosse

1810 - 1888

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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

Among biologists, Philip Henry Gosse ranks 536 out of 841Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Philip Henry Gosse ranks 57Before 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 64Before 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.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Philip Henry Gosse ranks 2,815 out of 7,765Before 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).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Philip Henry Gosse ranks 74Before 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).