BIOLOGIST

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 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Thomas Nuttall is the 904th most popular biologist (down from 797th in 2019), the 4,418th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,036th in 2019) and the 139th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 45.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Thomas Nuttall has had the most page views in the with 12,124 views, followed by Finnish (1,543), and Spanish (1,280). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (99.35%), Catalan (75.90%), and Breton (58.02%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Thomas Nuttall ranks 904 out of 1,097. Before him are Francis Willughby, Thomas Say, Robert Morison, Thomas Hardwicke, William Yarrell, and Sereno Watson. After him are Ruth Patrick, Colin Munro MacLeod, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Ann Bishop, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, and G. Ledyard Stebbins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Thomas Nuttall ranks 57. Before him are Moshoeshoe I, Pavel Schilling, Rudolph Schadow, Henry Bishop, Nathaniel Wallich, and Louis McLane. After him are William L. Marcy, José María Queipo de Llano, 7th Count of Toreno, and Walter Forward. Among people deceased in 1859, Thomas Nuttall ranks 57. Before him are Prince William of Baden, José Miguel de Velasco Franco, Heinrich Zollinger, Eliza Acton, Juan Bautista Ceballos, and David Cox. After him are Sydney, Lady Morgan, Bakht Khan, Leigh Hunt, Mountstuart Elphinstone, Richard Rush, and Charles Hamilton Smith.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Nuttall ranks 4,418 out of 8,785. Before him are William Yarrell (1784), James Collinson (1825), Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford (1946), John Morton (1420), Maud Gonne (1866), and Gavin Bryars (1943). After him are Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801), Richard Garriott (1961), Abraham Cowley (1618), Jeremy Spencer (1948), Richard Sinclair (1948), and Randolph Caldecott (1846).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Thomas Nuttall ranks 139. Before him are Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902), Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854), David Goodall (1914), Francis Willughby (1635), Robert Morison (1620), and William Yarrell (1784). After him are Ann Bishop (1899), Mark Catesby (1683), Edward Newton (1832), William Sherard (1659), Richard Thomas Lowe (1802), and Robert Wight (1796).

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