BIOLOGIST

Ray Lankester

1847 - 1929

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Sir Edwin Ray Lankester (15 May 1847 – 13 August 1929) was a British zoologist. An invertebrate zoologist and evolutionary biologist, he held chairs at University College London and Oxford University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ray Lankester has received more than 121,010 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Ray Lankester is the 613th most popular biologist (up from 714th in 2019), the 2,990th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,592nd in 2019) and the 81st most popular British Biologist.

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  • 22

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ray Lankester ranks 613 out of 1,097. Before him are Fritz Schaudinn, Martin Rathke, James Francis Stephens, Richard Goldschmidt, George Clifford III, and Alfred Sturtevant. After him are Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper, Rolf Singer, Georg Dionysius Ehret, Emmanuel Drake del Castillo, Karl Rudolphi, and George C. Williams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Ray Lankester ranks 76. Before him are Heinrich Gelzer, Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Ellen Terry, Koos de la Rey, Carlo Alberto Castigliano, and Milovan Glišić. After him are Ida Saxton McKinley, Cesare Arzelà, Castro Alves, Hermann Osthoff, Louis Henri Boussenard, and Eliška Krásnohorská. Among people deceased in 1929, Ray Lankester ranks 99. Before him are Sadhu Sundar Singh, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Heinrich Zille, Arno Holz, Lillie Langtry, and Léon Delacroix. After him are Gerhard Munthe, Robert Henri, Jeanne Eagels, Georges Courteline, Olav Aukrust, and Julian Fałat.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ray Lankester ranks 2,990 out of 8,785. Before him are Anthony Carlisle (1768), Fred Karno (1866), Hubert Parry (1848), Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (1872), Pat Jennings (1945), and Geoff Nicholls (1948). After him are Sidney Robinson (1876), John Robison (1739), Jimmy Johnstone (1944), Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (1405), Piers Morgan (1965), and Ronald Lacey (1935).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Ray Lankester ranks 81. Before him are Edward Turner Bennett (1797), Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803), William Elford Leach (1791), Richard Lydekker (1849), Philip Henry Gosse (1810), and James Francis Stephens (1792). After him are Anna Russell (1807), William Withering (1741), David Don (1799), Everard Home (1756), John Sims (1749), and William Roxburgh (1751).

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