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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 41,954 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. William Henry Harvey is the 751st most popular biologist, the 224th most popular biography from Ireland and the 3rd most popular Irish Biologist.

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  • 15

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  • 1.86

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Henry Harvey ranks 751 out of 841Before him are Johann Jakob Heckel, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Albert Charles Smith, Hermann Harms, Henry Nicholas Ridley, and Johann Jakob Kaup. After him are Hugh Edwin Strickland, Mary-Claire King, Gaston Bonnier, Nigel Marven, Stanley Norman Cohen, and Johann Friedrich Klotzsch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, William Henry Harvey ranks 61Before him are Dimitrija Demeter, Judah P. Benjamin, John Neumann, James Hall, Katarina Ivanović, and Luis González-Bravo y López de Arjona. After him are Hugh Edwin Strickland, Victor Duruy, Henry Liddell, Charles Sumner, Diomidis Kyriakos, and Juan Bautista Ceballos. Among people deceased in 1866, William Henry Harvey ranks 34Before him are Adolf Bernhard Marx, Peter Joseph Lenné, Manuel Bulnes, John McDouall Stuart, Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, and John Ross. After him are Christian Albrecht Bluhme, Henryk Rzewuski, Louis Meijer, Thomas Love Peacock, William Hopkins, and Matvey Gusev.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, William Henry Harvey ranks 224 out of 501Before him are Robert McClure (1807), John Philip Holland (1840), Lena Rice (1866), Michael Scott (1959), Luke Kelly (1940), and William McGonagall (1825). After him are Robert O'Hara Burke (1821), Eoin Colfer (1965), J. B. Bury (1861), Patrick Ryan (1881), Steve Barron (1956), and Agnes Mary Clerke (1842).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Ireland

Among biologists born in Ireland, William Henry Harvey ranks 3Before him are John Ellis (1710) and George Allman (1812).