BIOLOGIST

William Curtis

1746 - 1799

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William Curtis (11 January 1746 – 7 July 1799) was an English botanist and entomologist, who was born at Alton, Hampshire, site of the Curtis Museum. Curtis began as an apothecary, before turning his attention to botany and other natural history. The publications he prepared reached a wider audience than early works on the subject had intended. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Curtis has received more than 54,610 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). William Curtis is the 535th most popular biologist (down from 405th in 2019), the 2,653rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,274th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular British Biologist.

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  • 57.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Curtis ranks 535 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, Frederic Clements, Basilius Besler, Gustav Radde, and Craig Mello. After him are Janaki Ammal, Franz Meyen, Marie Jules César Savigny, Paul Bert, Oswald Heer, and Albrecht Thaer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, William Curtis ranks 29. Before him are Infanta Benedita of Portugal, Antonio Rosetti, Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, Jean-Sifrein Maury, Bernardo de Gálvez, and Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle. After him are Charles Cameron, Joachim Heinrich Campe, Robert R. Livingston, André Thouin, Louise du Pierry, and James Wyatt. Among people deceased in 1799, William Curtis ranks 31. Before him are Marcus Elieser Bloch, Jean-Étienne Montucla, Patrick Henry, Giuseppe Parini, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, and Johann Julius Walbaum. After him are Alexander Bezborodko, Francesco Mario Pagano, William Withering, Vasily Bazhenov, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, and Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Curtis ranks 2,653 out of 8,785. Before him are Dick Parry (1942), Joey Dunlop (1952), Ernest Mason Satow (1843), Constance Lloyd (1858), Georgette Heyer (1902), and Dave Legeno (1963). After him are James Somerville (1882), James Young Simpson (1811), Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678), Andrew Bell (1753), Jamie Oliver (1975), and George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Curtis ranks 72. Before him are June Almeida (1930), George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799), Edward Blyth (1810), Paul Nurse (1949), Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847), and Patrick Manson (1844). After him are John Gilbert Baker (1834), Andrew Smith (1797), Edward Turner Bennett (1797), Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803), William Elford Leach (1791), and Richard Lydekker (1849).

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