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Thomas Nuttall

1786 - 1859

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Thomas Nuttall (5 January 1786 – 10 September 1859) was an English botanist and zoologist who lived and worked in America from 1808 until 1841.Nuttall was born in the village of Long Preston, near Settle in the West Riding of Yorkshire and spent some years as an apprentice printer in England. Soon after going to the United States he met professor Benjamin Smith Barton in Philadelphia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Nuttall has received more than 99,536 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Thomas Nuttall is the 798th most popular biologist (down from 689th in 2019), the 4,044th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,393rd in 2019) and the 122nd most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Thomas Nuttall ranks 798 out of 841Before him are André Marie Constant Duméril, Jan Sztolcman, Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov, John Lawrence LeConte, Karl Alfred von Zittel, and Aimée Antoinette Camus. After him are Robert Weinberg, John Jacob Abel, Reginald Innes Pocock, Astrid Cleve, Michael Sars, and August W. Eichler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Thomas Nuttall ranks 52Before him are Andreas Metaxas, Pavel Schilling, Henry Bishop, José María Vargas, Rudolph Schadow, and Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar. After him are Louis McLane, Nathaniel Wallich, José María Queipo de Llano, 7th Count of Toreno, William L. Marcy, and Walter Forward. Among people deceased in 1859, Thomas Nuttall ranks 52Before him are Mountstuart Elphinstone, Heinrich Zollinger, Joseph Diez Gergonne, José Miguel de Velasco Franco, Thomas Horsfield, and Mirabeau B. Lamar. After him are Leigh Hunt, Juan Bautista Ceballos, Charles Hamilton Smith, Eliza Acton, Richard Rush, and David Cox.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Nuttall ranks 4,044 out of 7,765Before him are Roger Ashton-Griffiths (1957), Ninian (360), John Goodall (1863), Bernard Lovell (1913), Terry Cooper (1944), and Peter Arundell (1933). After him are Billy McNeill (1940), Billy Hughes (1862), Hereward the Wake (1035), Jack Straw (1946), Ian McElhinney (1948), and Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Thomas Nuttall ranks 122Before him are Lilian Gibbs (1870), Thomas Thomson (1817), Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761), Herbert Giles (1845), Alexander Wilson (1766), and Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (1800). After him are Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), Robert Wight (1796), Robert Morison (1620), Osbert Salvin (1835), John Abbot (1751), and William John Swainson (1789).