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Sereno Watson

1826 - 1892

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Sereno Watson (December 1, 1826 – March 9, 1892) was an American botanist. Watson was born December 1, 1826, in East Windsor Hill, Connecticut. Graduating from Yale in 1847 in Biology, he drifted through various occupations until, in California, he joined the Clarence King Expedition and eventually became its expedition botanist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sereno Watson has received more than 26,406 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Sereno Watson is the 782nd most popular biologist (down from 707th in 2019), the 7,558th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,747th in 2019) and the 106th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Sereno Watson ranks 782 out of 841Before him are Richard Anthony Salisbury, Bunzō Hayata, Nikolai Turczaninow, Grigore Antipa, Richard Spruce, and Yang Zhongjian. After him are Félix de Avelar Brotero, Charles Conrad Abbott, Judah Folkman, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky, Herbert Giles, and Alexander Wilson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Sereno Watson ranks 55Before him are Mariano Ignacio Prado, Lea Ahlborn, Friedrich Chrysander, Henry Clifton Sorby, August Ahlqvist, and Joseph Victor von Scheffel. After him are Matvey Gusev, John Buford, José Eusebio Otalora, Dinah Craik, and Henry John Stephen Smith. Among people deceased in 1892, Sereno Watson ranks 65Before him are Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, Jay Gould, José María Castro Madriz, John Pope, Dimitrie Brătianu, and Henry Edward Manning. After him are Dimitrios Valvis, Ernestine Rose, Joaquín Jovellar y Soler, Cyrus West Field, Johan Sverdrup, and Alexandre Levy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sereno Watson ranks 7,558 out of 18,182Before him are John W. Snow (1939), Samantha Mathis (1970), Tiffani Thiessen (1974), Elle Fanning (1998), Dell Curry (1964), and Tony Gilroy (1956). After him are Arliss Howard (1954), William Bradford (1755), Robert Goulet (1933), Fats Navarro (1923), Veronica Hart (1956), and Gregory Chaitin (1947).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Sereno Watson ranks 106Before him are Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890), Robert Trivers (1943), Albert Charles Smith (1906), Mary-Claire King (1946), Stanley Norman Cohen (1935), and Sam Harris (1967). After him are Charles Conrad Abbott (1843), Judah Folkman (1933), Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823), John Lawrence LeConte (1825), Robert Weinberg (1942), and John Jacob Abel (1857).