BIOLOGIST

Temple Grandin

1947 - Today

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Mary Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an American academic, inventor, and ethologist. She is a prominent proponent of the humane treatment of livestock for slaughter and the author of more than 60 scientific papers on animal behavior. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Temple Grandin has received more than 5,935,252 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Temple Grandin is the 196th most popular biologist (down from 169th in 2019), the 1,796th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,670th in 2019) and the 36th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 5.9M

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  • 58.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Temple Grandin ranks 196 out of 1,097Before her are Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Daniel Nathans, Henry Walter Bates, George Shaw, Asa Gray, and Alexander Agassiz. After her are Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, John James Audubon, Charles Bell, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, and Oldfield Thomas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Temple Grandin ranks 115Before her are Va'aletoa Sualauvi II, Cozy Powell, Gyanendra of Nepal, Henri Michel, Jerzy Stuhr, and Youn Yuh-jung. After her are Yukiya Amano, Robert Cailliau, Branko Oblak, Gérard Houllier, Jan Garbarek, and Rod Evans.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Temple Grandin ranks 1,796 out of 20,380Before her are Chadwick Boseman (1977), Robert Smithson (1938), Clara Bow (1905), Ken Mattingly (1936), Larry Scott (1938), and Elizabeth Montgomery (1933). After her are Eugene Fama (1939), "Weird Al" Yankovic (1959), Jim Caviezel (1968), Bill Pullman (1953), Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954), and Harry Stack Sullivan (1892).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Temple Grandin ranks 36Before her are Paul Greengard (1925), George Wald (1906), Stephen Jay Gould (1941), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), Daniel Nathans (1928), and Asa Gray (1810). After her are Wilbur Scoville (1865), Michael W. Young (1949), H. Robert Horvitz (1947), James Dwight Dana (1813), Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), and George Smith (1941).