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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 113,502 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ray Lankester is the 715th most popular biologist (down from 696th in 2019), the 3,600th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,453rd in 2019) and the 97th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ray Lankester ranks 715 out of 841Before him are Casimir de Candolle, Johannes Schmidt, Karl Patterson Schmidt, David Keilin, Anton Reichenow, and Wilhelm Hofmeister. After him are Francisco Manuel Blanco, William Townsend Aiton, François Marie Daudin, Ernst Ahl, Mary F. Lyon, and Thomas Bell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Ray Lankester ranks 79Before him are Eliška Krásnohorská, Emil Holub, Eduardo López de Romaña, Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, and Anton Reichenow. After him are Cesare Arzelà, Vilma Hugonnai, Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Lipót Schulhof, Mary Watson Whitney, and Morton Betts. Among people deceased in 1929, Ray Lankester ranks 109Before him are Jozef Murgaš, Julian Fałat, Olav Aukrust, Jeanne Eagels, Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, and Wilfred Baddeley. After him are Gunnar Heiberg, Edward Carpenter, Ted Wilde, Jean-Baptiste Mimiague, Otto Liebe, and Karel van de Woestijne.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ray Lankester ranks 3,600 out of 7,765Before him are Jake Weber (1963), Martin Gilbert (1936), Adrian Rawlins (1958), John Lyons (1932), Cædmon (657), and Jonathan Coe (1961). After him are George Coulouris (1903), Reginald Owen (1887), William Townsend Aiton (1766), George Larner (1875), Peter Whitehead (1914), and Niall Ferguson (1964).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Ray Lankester ranks 97Before him are David Don (1799), Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803), Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809), William Elford Leach (1791), N. E. Brown (1849), and William Thomas Blanford (1832). After him are William Townsend Aiton (1766), Mary F. Lyon (1925), Thomas Bell (1792), John Gerard (1545), Francis Willughby (1635), and Richard Thomas Lowe (1802).