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BIOLOGIST

Spencer Fullerton Baird

1823 - 1887

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Spencer Fullerton Baird (; February 3, 1823 – August 19, 1887) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and museum curator. Baird was the first curator to be named at the Smithsonian Institution. He eventually served as assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian from 1850 to 1878, and as Secretary from 1878 until 1887. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Spencer Fullerton Baird has received more than 116,090 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Spencer Fullerton Baird is the 789th most popular biologist (down from 713th in 2019), the 7,687th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,872nd in 2019) and the 109th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Spencer Fullerton Baird ranks 789 out of 841. Before him are Félix de Avelar Brotero, Charles Conrad Abbott, Judah Folkman, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky, Herbert Giles, and Alexander Wilson. After him are Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet, André Marie Constant Duméril, Jan Sztolcman, Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov, and John Lawrence LeConte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Spencer Fullerton Baird ranks 66. Before him are Joseph Leidy, Eduard Oscar Schmidt, William M. Tweed, Emilio Arrieta, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, and Francisco Asenjo Barbieri. After him are Charlotte Mary Yonge, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, Mackenzie Bowell, Francis Parkman, Coventry Patmore, and George Henry Williams. Among people deceased in 1887, Spencer Fullerton Baird ranks 47. Before him are Mikhail Katkov, Fran Levstik, E. Marlitt, Peder Balke, August Spies, and John Taylor. After him are Semyon Nadson, George Alexander Macfarren, Sarah Yorke Jackson, José Rufino Echenique, August W. Eichler, and Dorothea Dix.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Spencer Fullerton Baird ranks 7,687 out of 18,182. Before him are Mildred Dunnock (1901), Ash Carter (1954), DeWitt Clinton (1769), Billy Strayhorn (1915), Brian Helgeland (1961), and Josh Klinghoffer (1979). After him are William Colby (1920), Toni Basil (1943), Rian Johnson (1973), Bukka White (1906), Sophia Bush (1982), and Cliff Edwards (1895).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Spencer Fullerton Baird ranks 109. Before him are Mary-Claire King (1946), Stanley Norman Cohen (1935), Sam Harris (1967), Sereno Watson (1826), Charles Conrad Abbott (1843), and Judah Folkman (1933). After him are John Lawrence LeConte (1825), Robert Weinberg (1942), John Jacob Abel (1857), Jane Colden (1724), Clinton Hart Merriam (1855), and Wilfred Hudson Osgood (1875).

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