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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 799,606 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Eliot Morison is the 396th most popular historian (down from 296th in 2019), the 7,590th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,739th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Historian.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Samuel Eliot Morison ranks 396 out of 339. Before him are Sara Ashurbeyli, Zdeněk Nejedlý, Simon Schama, Agnes Arber, George Grote, and Benjamin Mazar. After him are Rudolph Rummel, Timothy Garton Ash, Charles A. Beard, Minhaj-i-Siraj, Kenneth Clark, and Alfred W. Crosby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Samuel Eliot Morison ranks 215. Before him are Barnes Wallis, Arvo Ylppö, Giorgio Zampori, Hedwig Kohn, Jacob L. Devers, and Sid Kimpton. After him are Erich Hecke, Sigmund Romberg, Emil Magnusson, Jerónimo Méndez, Juan Manuel Gálvez, and Giuseppe Domenichelli. Among people deceased in 1976, Samuel Eliot Morison ranks 197. Before him are Hermann Jónasson, Carl Benjamin Boyer, Mukesh, Anna Kéthly, Milena Rudnytska, and Segundo Durandal. After him are Matthias Kaburek, Narve Bonna, George Parker, Norman Foster, DeHart Hubbard, and María Corda.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Samuel Eliot Morison ranks 7,590 out of 18,182. Before him are Marsden Hartley (1877), Fisher Stevens (1963), Jo Jo White (1946), James Burnham (1905), Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836), and Mike Mills (1958). After him are Tom Heinsohn (1934), William M. Evarts (1818), Maurice Greene (1974), Charles Dana Gibson (1867), Glynn Turman (1947), and Bart D. Ehrman (1955).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Samuel Eliot Morison ranks 28. Before him are Efraim Zuroff (1948), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917), Daniel Pipes (1949), Christopher Lasch (1932), Carl Benjamin Boyer (1906), and Stephen Greenblatt (1943). After him are Rudolph Rummel (1932), Charles A. Beard (1874), Alfred W. Crosby (1931), Christopher Browning (1944), Carroll Quigley (1910), and Robert Jay Lifton (1926).

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