BIOLOGIST

William Jackson Hooker

1785 - 1865

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Sir William Jackson Hooker (6 July 1785 – 12 August 1865) was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botanic garden. At Kew he founded the Herbarium and enlarged the gardens and arboretum. The standard author abbreviation Hook. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Jackson Hooker has received more than 141,553 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). William Jackson Hooker is the 360th most popular biologist (up from 435th in 2019), the 1,910th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,406th in 2019) and the 50th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 32

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  • 6.58

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  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Jackson Hooker ranks 360 out of 1,097. Before him are Katsuko Saruhashi, Louis Claude Richard, Joel Asaph Allen, Pierre Magnol, Antoine de Jussieu, and Achille Richard. After him are Pierre Edmond Boissier, Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, Arthur Tansley, John Gould, Karl Koch, and Robert Gallo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, William Jackson Hooker ranks 28. Before him are Friedrich Wieck, Prince Paul of Württemberg, Charles Xavier Thomas, Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Adam Wilhelm Moltke, and Adam Sedgwick. After him are August Immanuel Bekker, Victor de Broglie, Edward Bransfield, Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Vicente López y Planes, and José Miguel Carrera. Among people deceased in 1865, William Jackson Hooker ranks 39. Before him are Sengge Rinchen, Felice Romani, Madeleine Sophie Barat, Andrés de Santa Cruz, Fredrika Bremer, and Rafael Carrera. After him are Friedrich August Stüler, Adolph Kolping, Robert Remak, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, and Evangelos Zappas.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Jackson Hooker ranks 1,910 out of 8,785. Before him are Ian Hill (1952), James Wolfe (1727), Arthur Young (1741), Ronnie Biggs (1929), Julian Sands (1958), and Louise, Princess Royal (1867). After him are William Kent (1685), William Watson (1715), William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759), Penelope Fitzgerald (1916), Willibald (700), and Gerald Gardner (1884).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Jackson Hooker ranks 50. Before him are Jack W. Szostak (1952), John Maynard Smith (1920), George Bentham (1800), Patrick Geddes (1854), John Sulston (1942), and Rupert Sheldrake (1942). After him are Arthur Tansley (1871), John Gould (1804), John Hughlings Jackson (1835), John Stevens Henslow (1796), Samuel Frederick Gray (1766), and Roderick Murchison (1792).

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