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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 210,709 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Cavalier-Smith is the 276th most popular biologist (up from 296th in 2019), the 1,701st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,754th in 2019) and the 40th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Thomas Cavalier-Smith ranks 276 out of 841. Before him are Alain Bombard, Erich von Tschermak, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, Valerius Cordus, Carl Hagenbeck, and Arthur Tansley. After him are Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Jacob Christian Schäffer, Alexander von Middendorff, Marie Stopes, Johann Bauhin, and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Thomas Cavalier-Smith ranks 204. Before him are Dan Graham, Takao Nishiyama, Pierre Clémenti, Mitch McConnell, Montserrat Figueras, and Fradique de Menezes. After him are Nguyễn Minh Triết, Günter Wallraff, Gabriele Veneziano, Dee Dee Warwick, Yvette Mimieux, and Jusuf Kalla. Among people deceased in 2021, Thomas Cavalier-Smith ranks 208. Before him are Darlene Hard, Jane Powell, Sabine Weiss, George Segal, Sam Jones, and Albert Vanhoye. After him are Adam Zagajewski, Yuan Longping, Luis de Pablo, Théoneste Bagosora, Dilip Kumar, and Jüri Tamm.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Cavalier-Smith ranks 1,701 out of 7,765. Before him are Samantha Eggar (1939), Matthew Arnold (1822), Louise, Princess Royal (1867), Ed Sheeran (1991), Kate Sheppard (1848), and Arthur Tansley (1871). After him are John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852), Edward Waring (1736), Kenneth Grahame (1859), Charles Gray (1928), John Wetton (1949), and Rupert Grint (1988).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Thomas Cavalier-Smith ranks 40. Before him are Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), George Shaw (1751), Rupert Sheldrake (1942), James Edward Smith (1759), June Almeida (1930), and Arthur Tansley (1871). After him are Marie Stopes (1880), John Hughlings Jackson (1835), John Gould (1804), Jack W. Szostak (1952), Richard Henderson (1945), and George Robert Gray (1808).

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