BIOLOGIST

Robert Whittaker

1920 - 1980

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Robert Harding Whittaker (December 27, 1920 – October 20, 1980) was an American plant ecologist, active from the 1950s to the 1970s. He was the first to propose the five kingdom taxonomic classification of the world's biota into the Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, and Monera in 1969. He also proposed the Whittaker Biome Classification, which categorized biome types upon two abiotic factors: temperature and precipitation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Whittaker has received more than 309,739 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Robert Whittaker is the 164th most popular biologist (down from 147th in 2019), the 1,439th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,442nd in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Biologist.

He is a mixed martial artist who competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is currently the UFC's interim middleweight champion.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Robert Whittaker ranks 164 out of 1,097. Before him are Olaus Rudbeck, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, Michel Adanson, Charles Bonnet, Joshua Lederberg, and Susumu Tonegawa. After him are Johan Christian Fabricius, Renato Dulbecco, Georges J. F. Köhler, Pierre André Latreille, Erik Acharius, and César Milstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Robert Whittaker ranks 72. Before him are Isaac Stern, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ivan Kozhedub, César Rodríguez Álvarez, and Albert Barillé. After him are Abe Lenstra, Takashi Kano, Arthur Hailey, Alicia Alonso, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, and Dorothea Binz. Among people deceased in 1980, Robert Whittaker ranks 52. Before him are Gustav Wagner, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Kim Jae-gyu, Raoul Walsh, Pascual Jordan, and V. V. Giri. After him are Mohammad Hatta, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse, Patrick Depailler, Walter Dornberger, Mario Bava, and Kazimierz Kuratowski.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Whittaker ranks 1,439 out of 20,380. Before him are Walter Bradford Cannon (1871), Ron Howard (1954), Harold Perrineau (1963), Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960), Sam Walton (1918), and Bernard Herrmann (1911). After him are Peter Eisenman (1932), Rene Russo (1954), Andre Agassi (1970), Annie Jump Cannon (1863), Phil Ochs (1940), and Harry Harrison (1925).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Robert Whittaker ranks 29. Before him are Hamilton O. Smith (1931), J. Michael Bishop (1936), George Davis Snell (1903), Leland H. Hartwell (1939), Norman Borlaug (1914), and Joshua Lederberg (1925). After him are Paul Greengard (1925), George Wald (1906), Stephen Jay Gould (1941), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), Daniel Nathans (1928), and Asa Gray (1810).

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