BIOLOGIST

Thomas Cavalier-Smith

1942 - 2021

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Thomas (Tom) Cavalier-Smith, FRS, FRSC, NERC Professorial Fellow (21 October 1942 – 19 March 2021), was a professor of evolutionary biology in the Department of Zoology, at the University of Oxford. His research has led to discovery of a number of unicellular organisms (protists) and advocated for a variety of major taxonomic groups, such as the Chromista, Chromalveolata, Opisthokonta, Rhizaria, and Excavata. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Cavalier-Smith has received more than 223,243 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Thomas Cavalier-Smith is the 222nd most popular biologist (up from 275th in 2019), the 1,297th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,696th in 2019) and the 36th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Thomas Cavalier-Smith ranks 222 out of 1,097. Before him are Michael W. Young, Desmond Morris, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Stephan Endlicher, Albert von Kölliker, and Roberto de Visiani. After him are H. Robert Horvitz, James Dwight Dana, Clair Cameron Patterson, George Smith, Francisco Varela, and Humberto Maturana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Thomas Cavalier-Smith ranks 158. Before him are Michel Kafando, Bill Conti, Rajesh Khanna, Robert F. Engle, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Yasuyuki Kuwahara. After him are Karen Uhlenbeck, Stefanie Powers, Giuseppe Bertello, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, Don S. Davis, and Linda Evans. Among people deceased in 2021, Thomas Cavalier-Smith ranks 113. Before him are Marion Ramsey, Gunnel Lindblom, Olympia Dukakis, Frank Williams, Tarcisio Burgnich, and Christa Ludwig. After him are Ahmed Jibril, Manuel Santana, Lucinda Riley, Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Cloris Leachman, and Humberto Maturana.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Cavalier-Smith ranks 1,297 out of 8,785. Before him are Albert Hammond (1944), Branwell Brontë (1817), David Prowse (1935), Kate Beckinsale (1973), Marina Berti (1924), and Michael Ventris (1922). After him are John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713), John Wilkins (1614), Joseph Boxhall (1884), Saint Malachy (1094), William Booth (1829), and Alexander Cunningham (1814).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Thomas Cavalier-Smith ranks 36. Before him are Charles Bell (1774), Oldfield Thomas (1858), J. B. S. Haldane (1892), Thomas Browne (1605), Joseph Banks (1743), and Desmond Morris (1928). After him are Michael Houghton (1949), Nehemiah Grew (1641), William Aiton (1731), Richard Henderson (1945), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), and John Lindley (1799).

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