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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. He was born in Glasgow the son of Thomas Thomson, chemistry professor at Glasgow University. He qualified as an M.D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Thomson has received more than 10,124 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Thomson is the 775th most popular biologist, the 3,866th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 117th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 10k

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  • 45.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Thomas Thomson ranks 775 out of 841. Before him are Sam Harris, Amalie Dietrich, Wilhelm Weinberg, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Lilian Gibbs, and Robert May, Baron May of Oxford. After him are Richard Anthony Salisbury, Bunzō Hayata, Nikolai Turczaninow, Grigore Antipa, Richard Spruce, and Yang Zhongjian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Thomas Thomson ranks 73. Before him are Serafino Dubois, Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, José Mármol, Palladius, George Holyoake, and Christen Andreas Fonnesbech. After him are Richard Spruce, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, Alfred Francis Russell, Manuel Robles Pezuela, Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, and Benjamin Jowett. Among people deceased in 1878, Thomas Thomson ranks 54. Before him are Roberto de Visiani, William Cullen Bryant, Manuel Pardo, William M. Tweed, Nicolae Golescu, and Palladius. After him are George Back, Aleardo Aleardi, Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, George Gilbert Scott, Charles Magill Conrad, and Bayard Taylor.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Thomson ranks 3,866 out of 7,765. Before him are Don McCullin (1935), Alex Turner (1986), James Quibell (1867), Simon Schama (1945), Ray Wilson (1934), and Boz Burrell (1946). After him are Steve Hogarth (1956), Celia Imrie (1952), Jonathan Sacks (1948), John Gray (1948), Agnes Arber (1879), and Robert Herrick (1591).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Thomas Thomson ranks 117. Before him are Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855), Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811), Nigel Marven (1960), Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799), and Lilian Gibbs (1870). After him are Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761), Herbert Giles (1845), Alexander Wilson (1766), Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (1800), Thomas Nuttall (1786), and Reginald Innes Pocock (1863).

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