BIOLOGIST

Sereno Watson

1826 - 1892

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Sereno Watson (December 1, 1826 – March 9, 1892) was an American botanist. Watson was born on 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 28,565 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Sereno Watson is the 904th most popular biologist (down from 781st in 2019), the 8,710th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,543rd in 2019) and the 129th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Sereno Watson ranks 904 out of 1,097. Before him are Wilhem de Haan, Francis Willughby, Thomas Say, Robert Morison, Thomas Hardwicke, and William Yarrell. After him are Thomas Nuttall, Ruth Patrick, Colin Munro MacLeod, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Ann Bishop, and Ludwig Carl Christian Koch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Sereno Watson ranks 60. Before him are Henry Clifton Sorby, Friedrich Chrysander, Lea Ahlborn, Joseph Victor von Scheffel, Emily Blackwell, and Matvey Gusev. After him are Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl, José María Medina, José Eusebio Otalora, John Buford, Varina Davis, and Dinah Craik. Among people deceased in 1892, Sereno Watson ranks 79. Before him are Alexandre Levy, Dimitrios Valvis, Georgi Valkovich, Ernestine Rose, Joaquín Jovellar y Soler, and Juana Manuela Gorriti. After him are Johan Sverdrup, James Skivring Smith, Teréz Karacs, John Greenleaf Whittier, Pieter Willem Korthals, and Edward Augustus Freeman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sereno Watson ranks 8,710 out of 20,380. Before him are Carly Fiorina (1954), Jessica Capshaw (1976), Earl Derr Biggers (1884), Judith Barsi (1978), Miiko Taka (1925), and Patricia Tallman (1957). After him are Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902), Terry Moore (1929), M. King Hubbert (1903), Machito (1912), Doug Emhoff (1964), and Hilarie Burton (1982).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Sereno Watson ranks 129. Before him are Benjamin Smith Barton (1766), Theobald Smith (1859), Robert Weinberg (1942), Richard Evans Schultes (1915), Clinton Hart Merriam (1855), and Thomas Say (1787). After him are Ruth Patrick (1907), G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906), Wilfred Hudson Osgood (1875), Osamu Hayaishi (1920), John Hopfield (1933), and Gerrit Smith Miller (1869).

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