BIOLOGIST

Richard Spruce

1817 - 1893

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Richard Spruce (10 September 1817 – 28 December 1893) was an English botanist specializing in bryology. One of the great Victorian botanical explorers, Spruce spent 15 years exploring the Amazon from the Andes to its mouth, and was one of the very first Europeans to observe many of the places where he collected specimens. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Spruce has received more than 54,308 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Spruce is the 982nd most popular biologist (down from 779th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 54k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Richard Spruce ranks 982 out of 1,097. Before him are Herbert Boyer, Frank Chapman, Wim Crusio, Pieter Willem Korthals, Helia Bravo Hollis, and Flossie Wong-Staal. After him are Akhtar Hameed Khan, Hugh Huxley, Lancelot Hogben, Adriana Hoffmann, Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman, and Stanislas Dehaene.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Richard Spruce ranks 85. Before him are Manuel Robles Pezuela, Lewis Armistead, Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin, George Henry Lewes, Serafino Dubois, and George Holyoake. After him are LeRoy Pope Walker, Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, and Benjamin Jowett. Among people deceased in 1893, Richard Spruce ranks 83. Before him are Aleksey Pleshcheyev, Benjamin Butler, Ion Emanuel Florescu, Edmund Kirby Smith, Hamilton Fish, and John Rae. After him are John Addington Symonds, William Fox, Fanny Kemble, John Ballance, Francis Parkman, and Benjamin Jowett.

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