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Thomas Say

1787 - 1834

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Thomas Say (June 27, 1787 – October 10, 1834) was an American entomologist, conchologist, and herpetologist. His studies of insects and shells, numerous contributions to scientific journals, and scientific expeditions to Florida, Georgia, the Rocky Mountains, Mexico, and elsewhere made him an internationally known naturalist. Say has been called the father of American descriptive entomology and American conchology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Say has received more than 107,793 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Thomas Say is the 900th most popular biologist (down from 597th in 2019), the 8,640th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,677th in 2019) and the 128th most popular American Biologist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Thomas Say ranks 900 out of 1,097. Before him are Peter Ascanius, Clinton Hart Merriam, Yasutomi Nishizuka, Otto Bütschli, Wilhem de Haan, and Francis Willughby. After him are Robert Morison, Thomas Hardwicke, William Yarrell, Sereno Watson, Thomas Nuttall, and Ruth Patrick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Thomas Say ranks 52. Before him are John Richardson, Pedro Vélez, Edward Blore, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter, José Tomás Ovalle, and Thomas Hodgskin. After him are Josef Ludwig von Armansperg, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Emma Willard, John J. Crittenden, and Mary Russell Mitford. Among people deceased in 1834, Thomas Say ranks 40. Before him are Infanta Maria da Assunção of Braganza, Alexius Frederick Christian, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, Jean Louis Marie Poiret, Pierre Adet, Jacques Labillardière, and William H. Crawford. After him are John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, David Douglas, and William Wirt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas Say ranks 8,640 out of 20,380. Before him are Jim Elliot (1927), Michael Steele (1955), Forrest Tucker (1919), Jerry O'Connell (1974), Arto Lindsay (1953), and Milton H. Greene (1922). After him are Ben Burtt (1948), Alvah Meyer (1888), Rosalind Chao (1957), Tom Florie (1897), Wesley Ruggles (1889), and Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Thomas Say ranks 128. Before him are Sam Harris (1967), Benjamin Smith Barton (1766), Theobald Smith (1859), Robert Weinberg (1942), Richard Evans Schultes (1915), and Clinton Hart Merriam (1855). After him are Sereno Watson (1826), Ruth Patrick (1907), G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906), Wilfred Hudson Osgood (1875), Osamu Hayaishi (1920), and John Hopfield (1933).

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