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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 50,387 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). William Curtis is the 406th most popular biologist (up from 445th in 2019), the 2,280th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,310th in 2019) and the 64th most popular British Biologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Curtis ranks 406 out of 841. Before him are Clemens von Pirquet, Henri Milne-Edwards, Heinrich Anton de Bary, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Abraham Trembley, and Hermann Burmeister. After him are Adolf Mayer, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Matthias de l'Obel, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Louis Claude Richard, and Peter Artedi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, William Curtis ranks 26. Before him are Antonio Rosetti, Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, François-André Vincent, Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia, and Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken. After him are Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, Jean-Sifrein Maury, Charles Cameron, Robert R. Livingston, Joachim Heinrich Campe, and James Wyatt. Among people deceased in 1799, William Curtis ranks 26. Before him are Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Patrick Henry, Pierre Pigneau de Behaine, Claude Balbastre, Marcus Elieser Bloch, and Pierre Charles Le Monnier. After him are Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Johann Hedwig, Giuseppe Parini, Francesco Mario Pagano, Jean-Étienne Montucla, and Landgravine Juliane of Hesse-Philippsthal.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Curtis ranks 2,280 out of 7,765. Before him are John Leslie (1766), Tony Banks (1950), Richard Hammond (1969), Lord Leopold Mountbatten (1889), David Gill (1843), and Cedric Hardwicke (1893). After him are Jack Higgins (1929), Winston Graham (1908), Natalie Dormer (1982), Matthew Vaughn (1971), Patrick Troughton (1920), and Richard Williamson (1940).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Curtis ranks 64. Before him are William Hudson (1730), Oldfield Thomas (1858), Francis Darwin (1848), William Aiton (1731), Edward Daniel Clarke (1769), and George Bentham (1800). After him are William Jackson Hooker (1785), Gregory Winter (1951), Richard Lydekker (1849), Reginald Punnett (1875), Samuel Frederick Gray (1766), and Anna Russell (1807).

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