BIOLOGIST

Ruth Patrick

1907 - 2013

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Ruth Myrtle Patrick (November 26, 1907 – September 23, 2013) was an American botanist and limnologist specializing in diatoms and freshwater ecology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruth Patrick has received more than 139,297 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Ruth Patrick is the 906th most popular biologist (down from 899th in 2019), the 8,730th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,127th in 2019) and the 130th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ruth Patrick ranks 906 out of 1,097. Before her are Thomas Say, Robert Morison, Thomas Hardwicke, William Yarrell, Sereno Watson, and Thomas Nuttall. After her are Colin Munro MacLeod, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Ann Bishop, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, G. Ledyard Stebbins, and Nikolai Turczaninow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Ruth Patrick ranks 332. Before her are Oscarino Costa Silva, Les Clark, Robert John Braidwood, Ilias Tsirimokos, Ernesto Albarracín, and Jacques Barzun. After her are Charles Korvin, José Bustamante, August Hellemans, Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich, Jules Roy, and Sheldon Leonard. Among people deceased in 2013, Ruth Patrick ranks 387. Before her are Paul Bearer, Richard LeParmentier, Irina Petrescu, Donald Richie, George E. P. Box, and Walter Jens. After her are Nino Bibbia, Cedar Walton, Alfonso Lara, Silvi Vrait, Alberto Bevilacqua, and Diomedes Díaz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ruth Patrick ranks 8,730 out of 20,380. Before her are Katherine Moennig (1977), Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923), Dee Brown (1908), Ted Kaufman (1939), James Cruze (1884), and Tom Vilsack (1950). After her are Buddy Van Horn (1928), Neil Burger (1963), Yakima Canutt (1895), Anne Gwynne (1918), Nunnally Johnson (1897), and John Aylward (1946).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Ruth Patrick ranks 130. Before her are Theobald Smith (1859), Robert Weinberg (1942), Richard Evans Schultes (1915), Clinton Hart Merriam (1855), Thomas Say (1787), and Sereno Watson (1826). After her are G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906), Wilfred Hudson Osgood (1875), Osamu Hayaishi (1920), John Hopfield (1933), Gerrit Smith Miller (1869), and Lucy Shapiro (1940).

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