BIOLOGIST

Robert Ridgway

1850 - 1929

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Robert Ridgway (July 2, 1850 – March 25, 1929) was an American ornithologist specializing in systematics. He was appointed in 1880 by Spencer Fullerton Baird, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to be the first full-time curator of birds at the United States National Museum, a title he held until his death. In 1883, he helped found the American Ornithologists' Union, where he served as officer and journal editor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Ridgway has received more than 87,577 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Robert Ridgway is the 850th most popular biologist (down from 849th in 2019), the 8,025th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,850th in 2019) and the 116th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Robert Ridgway ranks 850 out of 1,097. Before him are Gustav Lindau, William John Burchell, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Tadas Ivanauskas, Édouard Ménétries, and Richard Anthony Salisbury. After him are Anne McLaren, Daniel Oliver, Joshua Brookes, William Kirby, John Torrey, and William John Swainson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Robert Ridgway ranks 103. Before him are Betzy Akersloot-Berg, Franziskus von Bettinger, Alfred Maudslay, Hermann Möller, Eduard Sievers, and Jane Ellen Harrison. After him are John Milne, Guerra Junqueiro, William H. Welch, Hans von Pechmann, Daniel Chester French, and Nikolai Golitsyn. Among people deceased in 1929, Robert Ridgway ranks 123. Before him are Jozef Murgaš, Eugenio Tosi, André Messager, Franciszek Rychnowski, Otto Liebe, and Edward Carpenter. After him are Walther Katzenstein, Antoni Lange, Ödön Tersztyánszky, Otokar Březina, Sigurd Jørgensen, and Karel van de Woestijne.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Ridgway ranks 8,025 out of 20,380. Before him are Samuel J. Tilden (1814), Laura Leighton (1968), Edwin Starr (1942), Robert Yerkes (1876), A. P. Hill (1825), and Lyle Mays (1953). After him are Derek Sherinian (1966), Adam McKay (1968), Kay Francis (1905), Nelson W. Aldrich (1841), Helene Madison (1913), and Gerald R. Molen (1935).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Robert Ridgway ranks 116. Before him are Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey (1863), Charles Wallace Richmond (1868), Alice Catherine Evans (1881), John Jacob Abel (1857), Judah Folkman (1933), and Mary Katharine Brandegee (1844). After him are John Torrey (1796), Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858), Stanley Norman Cohen (1935), Charles Horton Peck (1833), Charles Conrad Abbott (1843), and Sam Harris (1967).

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