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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 130,746 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ruth Patrick is the 900th most popular biologist (down from 824th in 2019), the 10,150th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,871st in 2019) and the 134th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 41.14

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ruth Patrick ranks 900 out of 841Before her are Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw, Pieter Willem Korthals, John Claudius Loudon, David Lack, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, and Charles Wallace Richmond. After her are Sydney Parkinson, Archibald Menzies, Christian Drosten, Thomas Pennant, Charles Sprague Sargent, and Maxwell T. Masters.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Ruth Patrick ranks 338Before her are Constantino Urbieta Sosa, László Rajcsányi, Arnie Oliver, Isabel Jewell, Kate Smith, and Adelaide Lambert. After her are Paul Douglas, Grahame Clark, Philip Slone, Paul Nitze, Christopher Fry, and Aldo Donelli. Among people deceased in 2013, Ruth Patrick ranks 408Before her are Vern Mikkelsen, Bryan Forbes, Mohamed Brahmi, Viktor Zinger, Taisia Chenchik, and Stan Vickers. After her are Dale Robertson, Simon Pimenta, Sayan Sanya, Slim Whitman, Mel Smith, and Reg Presley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ruth Patrick ranks 10,150 out of 18,182Before her are Donna Douglas (1932), Holcombe Ward (1878), Alfred Lane (1891), William Kircher (1958), Robert F. Overmyer (1936), and Naomi Grossman (1975). After her are Dorothy Provine (1935), George B. Seitz (1888), Jaycee Chan (1982), Johnny Messner (1970), Gladys Egan (1900), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1989).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Ruth Patrick ranks 134Before her are Charles B. Cory (1857), John Hopfield (1933), George R. Price (1922), John Kunkel Small (1869), Samuel Garman (1843), and Charles Wallace Richmond (1868). After her are Charles Sprague Sargent (1841), William Bartram (1739), Lucy Shapiro (1940), Outram Bangs (1863), Maxine Singer (1931), and Alice Catherine Evans (1881).