BIOLOGIST

Thomas Browne

1605 - 1682

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Sir Thomas Browne ( "brown"; 19 October 1605 – 19 October 1682) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. His writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the Scientific Revolution of Baconian enquiry and are permeated by references to Classical and Biblical sources as well as the idiosyncrasies of his own personality. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Browne has received more than 765,159 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Thomas Browne is the 210th most popular biologist (up from 214th in 2019), the 1,187th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,371st in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Biologist.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Thomas Browne ranks 210 out of 1,097. Before him are Waldemar Haffkine, J. B. S. Haldane, Pierre Belon, Mikhail Tsvet, Friedrich Parrot, and Johann Reinhold Forster. After him are Wilbur Scoville, Tomitaro Makino, Joseph Banks, Hans Driesch, Hideyo Noguchi, and Michael W. Young.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1605, Thomas Browne ranks 12. Before him are Giacomo Carissimi, Şehzade Mehmed, Adriaen Brouwer, Ayşe Sultan, Semyon Dezhnev, and Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier. After him are George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Simon Dach, Zhu Yuyue, Brynjólfur Sveinsson, and Ferenc Wesselényi. Among people deceased in 1682, Thomas Browne ranks 14. Before him are Johann Joachim Becher, Avvakum, Baldassare Longhena, Alessandro Stradella, Jean Picard, and Prince Rupert of the Rhine. After him are Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Gu Yanwu, Heo Mok, and Yohannes I.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Browne ranks 1,187 out of 8,785. Before him are William Sturgeon (1783), Emily Blunt (1983), Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813), Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864), John Fisher (1469), and Max Mosley (1940). After him are Michael Moorcock (1939), Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341), Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623), Edith Cavell (1865), John Kay (1704), and Rob Roy MacGregor (1671).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Thomas Browne ranks 33. Before him are Ian Wilmut (1944), Henry Walter Bates (1825), George Shaw (1751), Charles Bell (1774), Oldfield Thomas (1858), and J. B. S. Haldane (1892). After him are Joseph Banks (1743), Desmond Morris (1928), Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942), Michael Houghton (1949), Nehemiah Grew (1641), and William Aiton (1731).

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