BIOLOGIST

Sylvia Earle

1935 - Today

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Sylvia Alice Earle (born August 30, 1935) is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer. She has been a National Geographic Explorer at Large (formerly Explorer in Residence) since 1998. Earle was the first female chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and was named by Time Magazine as its first Hero for the Planet in 1998.Earle is part of the group Ocean Elders, which is dedicated to protecting the ocean and its wildlife.Earle gained a large amount of publicity when she was featured in Seaspiracy (2021), a Netflix Original documentary by British filmmaker Ali Tabrizi.Earle eats a vegetarian diet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sylvia Earle has received more than 2,630,361 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Sylvia Earle is the 55th most popular biologist (up from 104th in 2019), the 625th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,145th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Biologist.

Sylvia Earle is most famous for her work in oceanography and marine conservation. She is the founder of the Deep Ocean Exploration and Research (DOER) program, which is a program that uses underwater vehicles to explore the deep sea. She has also been the Chief Scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for over 20 years.

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  • 65.41

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  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Sylvia Earles by language

Over the past year Sylvia Earle has had the most page views in the with 498,506 views, followed by Spanish (181,675), and French (83,689). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Macedonian (297.06%), Portuguese (177.04%), and Spanish (146.49%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Sylvia Earle ranks 55 out of 1,097. Before her are René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Roger Guillemin, Hugo Theorell, Albert Claude, Jean-Henri Fabre, and François Jacob. After her are Hugo de Vries, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Daniel Bovet, John Edward Gray, Nikolai Vavilov, and George Beadle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Sylvia Earle ranks 29. Before her are Fairuz, Luis Suárez, Theo Angelopoulos, Edward Said, John Cazale, and Mohamed Hussein Tantawi. After her are William Friedkin, Gherman Titov, Mylène Demongeot, Mercedes Sosa, Bibi Andersson, and Seiji Ozawa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sylvia Earle ranks 625 out of 20,380. Before her are John Irving (1942), Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936), George E. Smith (1930), Isaac Singer (1811), Joan Crawford (1904), and Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927). After her are William Friedkin (1935), Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921), Harold Ramis (1944), Whoopi Goldberg (1955), Louisa May Alcott (1832), and Paul Krugman (1953).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Sylvia Earle ranks 6. Before her are James Watson (1928), Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866), Rachel Carson (1907), Barbara McClintock (1902), and Dian Fossey (1932). After her are George Beadle (1903), Irwin Rose (1926), Linda B. Buck (1947), Stanley B. Prusiner (1942), Hermann Joseph Muller (1890), and John B. Calhoun (1917).

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