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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 123,983 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Spencer Fullerton Baird is the 767th most popular biologist (up from 788th in 2019), the 7,086th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,672nd in 2019) and the 102nd most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Spencer Fullerton Baird ranks 767 out of 1,097. Before him are Alexei Fedchenko, Karl Moritz Schumann, David Keilin, Heinrich Zollinger, Hans von Berlepsch, and Bunzō Hayata. After him are Kristine Bonnevie, Ángel Cabrera, Giacomo Bresadola, Jules Verreaux, William Thomas Blanford, and Alfred G. Knudson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Spencer Fullerton Baird ranks 71. Before him are Ernest Reyer, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, Joseph Leidy, Dmitry Tolstoy, Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, and William M. Tweed. After him are Robert Whitehead, Guillermo Tell Villegas, Henry Wirz, Manolache Costache Epureanu, Jasper Francis Cropsey, and Mackenzie Bowell. Among people deceased in 1887, Spencer Fullerton Baird ranks 51. Before him are Peder Balke, Fran Levstik, E. Marlitt, John Taylor, August W. Eichler, and Dorothea Dix. After him are José Rufino Echenique, Sarah Yorke Jackson, Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, August Spies, Semyon Nadson, and Henry Ward Beecher.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Spencer Fullerton Baird ranks 7,086 out of 20,380. Before him are Daniel J. Boorstin (1914), William Gibson (1914), Maud Wagner (1877), Greg Germann (1958), William M. Tweed (1823), and Walter Block (1941). After him are Haley Joel Osment (1988), Lloyd Kaufman (1945), Tina Weymouth (1950), Frankie Knuckles (1955), Terry Bradshaw (1948), and Charles Roven (1949).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Spencer Fullerton Baird ranks 102. Before him are Richard Lewontin (1929), George Newbold Lawrence (1806), Joseph Leidy (1823), Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890), James L. Peters (1889), and Neil Campbell (1946). After him are Alfred G. Knudson (1922), Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859), Joseph Banks Rhine (1895), Paul R. Ehrlich (1932), Alfred Romer (1894), and Robert Trivers (1943).

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