BIOLOGIST

Thomas Thomson

1817 - 1878

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Thomas Thomson (4 December 1817 – 18 April 1878) was a British surgeon with the British East India Company before becoming a botanist. He was a friend of Joseph Dalton Hooker and helped write the first volume of Flora Indica. With Hooker he distributed the exsiccata-like series Herbarium Indiae orientalis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Thomson has received more than 10,598 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Thomas Thomson is the 805th most popular biologist (down from 774th in 2019), the 3,941st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,858th in 2019) and the 112th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 16

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  • 1.70

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Thomas Thomson ranks 805 out of 1,097. Before him are Francisco Manuel Blanco, Jean Baptiste Boisduval, Marie-Anne Libert, Robert Trivers, José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, and Alec Jeffreys. After him are Étienne Pierre Ventenat, Johann Christoph Wendland, Yang Zhongjian, Herbert Copeland, Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey, and Alfred Cogniaux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Thomas Thomson ranks 77. Before him are Karbalayi Safikhan Karabakhi, Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Christen Andreas Fonnesbech, Richard S. Ewell, Palladius, and Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio. After him are Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, Manuel Robles Pezuela, Lewis Armistead, Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin, George Henry Lewes, and Serafino Dubois. Among people deceased in 1878, Thomas Thomson ranks 58. Before him are Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, Manuel Pardo, Palladius, William M. Tweed, and Jaroslav Čermák. After him are William Cullen Bryant, Nicolae Golescu, Aleardo Aleardi, George Back, Andrew Scott Waugh, and Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Thomson ranks 3,941 out of 8,785. Before him are Joe Mercer (1914), Jim Capaldi (1944), Gary Daniels (1963), Ælfric of Eynsham (955), Alec Jeffreys (1950), and Murray Walker (1923). After him are Eric Thompson (1919), Lachlan Macquarie (1762), Albert Lee (1943), Thomas Picton (1758), Donald Nicol (1923), and Thomas Love Peacock (1785).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Thomas Thomson ranks 112. Before him are William Thomas Blanford (1832), Henry Baker (1698), Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), William Townsend Aiton (1766), and Alec Jeffreys (1950). After him are George Edwards (1694), William Hemsley (1843), Herbert Giles (1845), Sydney Parkinson (1745), Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (1800), and William John Burchell (1781).

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