BIOLOGIST

Pieter Willem Korthals

1807 - 1892

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Pieter Willem Korthals (September 1, 1807, Amsterdam – March 1892, Haarlem) was a Dutch botanist. Korthals was the official botanist with the Dutch East India Service from 1831 to 1836. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pieter Willem Korthals has received more than 25,939 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Pieter Willem Korthals is the 979th most popular biologist (down from 894th in 2019), the 963rd most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 863rd in 2019) and the 19th most popular Dutch Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Pieter Willem Korthals ranks 979 out of 1,097. Before him are Sarah Gilbert, Irene Pepperberg, Gilbert White, Herbert Boyer, Frank Chapman, and Wim Crusio. After him are Helia Bravo Hollis, Flossie Wong-Staal, Richard Spruce, Akhtar Hameed Khan, Hugh Huxley, and Lancelot Hogben.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Pieter Willem Korthals ranks 53. Before him are Robert McClure, Emily Donelson, Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Ira Aldridge, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Charles Francis Adams Sr.. After him are Peter Hardeman Burnett, David Rice Atchison, James Abbott, and Henry Sewell. Among people deceased in 1892, Pieter Willem Korthals ranks 84. Before him are Juana Manuela Gorriti, Sereno Watson, Johan Sverdrup, James Skivring Smith, Teréz Karacs, and John Greenleaf Whittier. After him are Edward Augustus Freeman, Harry Atkinson, and Newton Booth.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Pieter Willem Korthals ranks 963 out of 1,646. Before him are Stan Valckx (1963), Duncan Laurence (1994), Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (1973), Anna Dresden-Polak (1906), Harry Lubse (1951), and Johan van Hulst (1911). After him are Rita Verdonk (1955), Ewine van Dishoeck (1955), Maxime Verhagen (1956), Johanna ter Steege (1961), Peter Winnen (1957), and Caroline van der Plas (1967).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Netherlands

Among biologists born in Netherlands, Pieter Willem Korthals ranks 19. Before him are George Clifford III (1685), Volcher Coiter (1534), Jan Frederik Gronovius (1686), C. B. van Niel (1897), Wilhem de Haan (1801), and Wim Crusio (1954).

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