BIOLOGIST

William Bateson

1861 - 1926

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William Bateson (8 August 1861 – 8 February 1926) was an English biologist who was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscovery in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Bateson has received more than 254,852 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). William Bateson is the 144th most popular biologist (down from 116th in 2019), the 836th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 810th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Biologist.

William Bateson is most famous for his work in genetics, specifically his discovery of the law of dominance.

Memorability Metrics

  • 250k

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  • 60.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of William Batesons by language

Over the past year William Bateson has had the most page views in the with 26,507 views, followed by Spanish (9,353), and Russian (4,591). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Pashto (87.64%), Uzbek (59.18%), and Simple English (39.70%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Bateson ranks 144 out of 1,097. Before him are John Ray, Carl Peter Thunberg, Hamilton O. Smith, Mario Capecchi, William Carey, and J. Michael Bishop. After him are Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jan Svatopluk Presl, Walther Flemming, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, and Carl Linnaeus the Younger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, William Bateson ranks 32. Before him are Ranavalona III, Nettie Stevens, István Tisza, Solomon R. Guggenheim, Armando Diaz, and Luigi Facta. After him are Anton Arensky, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Henry Gantt, Walter Simons, Pierre Duhem, and Michel Verne. Among people deceased in 1926, William Bateson ranks 29. Before him are Kim Hyong-jik, Karl Harrer, Constantin Fehrenbach, Viktor Vasnetsov, Victor, Prince Napoléon, and Mikao Usui. After him are Ellen Key, Friedrich von Wieser, John Louis Emil Dreyer, Knut Wicksell, Alphonse Borrelly, and Émile Coué.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Bateson ranks 836 out of 8,785. Before him are Godfrey Hounsfield (1919), Cliff Williams (1949), Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), David Coverdale (1951), Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850), and Æthelbald, King of Wessex (831). After him are John William Polidori (1795), Alan Parsons (1948), Bernard Cornwell (1944), Anthony James Leggett (1938), Pete Postlethwaite (1946), and Imelda Staunton (1956).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Bateson ranks 22. Before him are Oliver Smithies (1925), Julian Huxley (1887), John Gurdon (1933), Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), John Ray (1627), and William Carey (1761). After him are Martin Evans (1941), John Boyd Orr (1880), Anna Atkins (1799), George Robert Gray (1808), Ian Wilmut (1944), and Henry Walter Bates (1825).

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