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Samuel Eliot Morison

1887 - 1976

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Samuel Eliot Morison (July 9, 1887 – May 15, 1976) was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history and American history that were both authoritative and popular. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912, and taught history at the university for 40 years. He won Pulitzer Prizes for Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942), a biography of Christopher Columbus, and John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography (1959). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Eliot Morison has received more than 850,774 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Eliot Morison is the 478th most popular historian (down from 396th in 2019), the 8,168th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,575th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Historian.

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  • 53.29

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Samuel Eliot Morison ranks 478 out of 561. Before him are Nikolaus Pevsner, Rudolph Rummel, Anvar Chingizoglu, Catharine Macaulay, Sara Ashurbeyli, and Christopher Browning. After him are Firishta, Alfred W. Crosby, N. G. L. Hammond, William of Newburgh, Richard Overy, and Kenneth Clark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Samuel Eliot Morison ranks 239. Before him are Carl Blegen, Jack Conway, Patrick O'Connell, George Abbott, Walter Janssen, and Giuseppe Domenichelli. After him are Al Ernest Garcia, Anthony van Hoboken, Jerónimo Méndez, Oscar Kreuzer, María Teresa Ferrari, and Clive Brook. Among people deceased in 1976, Samuel Eliot Morison ranks 217. Before him are Busby Berkeley, Walter Janssen, Carlo Mattrel, Anna Kéthly, Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, and Margaret Leighton. After him are Segundo Durandal, Clarice Benini, Isidoro Sota, Abram Room, David Jacobs, and Andrei Fayt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Samuel Eliot Morison ranks 8,168 out of 20,380. Before him are Mac Wilkins (1950), John P. Kennedy (1795), William Wilson Morgan (1906), Sean Flynn (1941), Otis Spann (1924), and Stanley Norman Cohen (1935). After him are Mac Miller (1992), Blind Willie McTell (1898), Christopher George (1931), Amy Tan (1952), Robert Wrenn (1873), and Maud Barger-Wallach (1870).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Samuel Eliot Morison ranks 33. Before him are Robert Jay Lifton (1926), Lothrop Stoddard (1883), Charles A. Beard (1874), Charles Homer Haskins (1870), Rudolph Rummel (1932), and Christopher Browning (1944). After him are Alfred W. Crosby (1931), Christopher Lasch (1932), American Horse (1840), Stephen F. Cohen (1938), Stephen Greenblatt (1943), and Carroll Quigley (1910).

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