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Robert Wight

1796 - 1872

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Robert Wight (6 July 1796 – 26 May 1872) was a Scottish surgeon in the East India Company, whose professional career was spent entirely in southern India, where his greatest achievements were in botany – as an economic botanist and leading taxonomist in south India. He contributed to the introduction of American cotton. As a taxonomist he described 110 new genera and 1267 new species of flowering plants. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Wight has received more than 37,025 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Wight is the 934th most popular biologist (down from 805th in 2019), the 4,618th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,105th in 2019) and the 145th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Robert Wight ranks 934 out of 1,097. Before him are John Hopfield, Gerrit Smith Miller, Tokiharu Abe, Richard Thomas Lowe, Johann Wilhelm Meigen, and Lucy Shapiro. After him are Aylmer Bourke Lambert, William Beebe, Johann Friedrich Adam, Joseph Barcroft, Thomas Pennant, and Lilian Gibbs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Robert Wight ranks 65. Before him are Phan Thanh Giản, John M. Clayton, George Back, John Torrey, Nikolai Turczaninow, and Henry De la Beche. After him are John Bell, and Benjamin Bonneville. Among people deceased in 1872, Robert Wight ranks 69. Before him are Edwin Atherstone, Nikolay Milyutin, Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, Charles Combes, Agustín Morales, and Thomas Sully. After him are José Burgos, Edward James Roye, Thomas C. Jerdon, Lowell Mason, Robert S. Duncanson, and Frederick Denison Maurice.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Wight ranks 4,618 out of 8,785. Before him are Sylvia Syms (1934), Peter Arundell (1933), Allan Williams (1930), Frederick Holman (1885), Mark Williams (1975), and Yvonne Blake (1940). After him are Ann Jones (1938), Billy Bingham (1931), Richard Gunn (1871), Matthew Carter (1937), Paul Nash (1889), and Allan Jay (1931).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Robert Wight ranks 145. Before him are Thomas Nuttall (1786), Ann Bishop (1899), Mark Catesby (1683), Edward Newton (1832), William Sherard (1659), and Richard Thomas Lowe (1802). After him are Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761), Joseph Barcroft (1872), Thomas Pennant (1726), Lilian Gibbs (1870), Nigel Marven (1960), and Charles Walter De Vis (1829).

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