BIOLOGIST

William Henry Harvey

1811 - 1866

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William Henry Harvey, FRS FLS (5 February 1811 – 15 May 1866) was an Irish botanist and phycologist who specialised in algae. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Henry Harvey has received more than 46,272 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. William Henry Harvey is the 925th most popular biologist (down from 750th in 2019), the 274th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 223rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Irish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Henry Harvey ranks 925 out of 1,097. Before him are William Sherard, Johan Lange, Wilfred Hudson Osgood, Osamu Hayaishi, Victor Motschulsky, and Michael Sars. After him are Shi Zhengli, Walter Migula, John Hopfield, Gerrit Smith Miller, Tokiharu Abe, and Richard Thomas Lowe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, William Henry Harvey ranks 69. Before him are James Hall, Henry Liddell, Luis González-Bravo y López de Arjona, Karl Ludwig Littrow, Juan Bautista Ceballos, and Diomidis Kyriakos. After him are Francisco Javier Zaldúa, Charles Sumner, Hugh Edwin Strickland, William Bell Scott, John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, and George Caleb Bingham. Among people deceased in 1866, William Henry Harvey ranks 51. Before him are José Ignacio Pavón, Thomas Love Peacock, Henryk Rzewuski, Joseph Weydemeyer, Matvey Gusev, and Manuel Felipe de Tovar. After him are Samuel Ryan Curtis, Robert F. Stockton, John Keble, and Clement Comer Clay.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, William Henry Harvey ranks 274 out of 549. Before him are Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865), Sydney, Lady Morgan (1776), Harry Clarke (1889), Evanna Lynch (1991), James Cecil Parke (1881), and Agnes Mary Clerke (1842). After him are Brian Downey (1951), Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet (1737), William Desmond Taylor (1872), John O'Shea (1981), George Salmon (1819), and Caoimhín Kelleher (1998).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Ireland

Among biologists born in Ireland, William Henry Harvey ranks 4. Before him are John Ellis (1710), George Allman (1812), and Edward Donovan (1768).

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