BIOLOGIST

William Murrill

1869 - 1957

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William Alphonso Murrill (October 13, 1869 – December 25, 1957) was an American mycologist, known for his contributions to the knowledge of the Agaricales and Polyporaceae. In 1904, he became the assistant Curator at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). He, along with the NYBG, founded the journal Mycologia and was its first editor for 16 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Murrill has received more than 24,767 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). William Murrill is the 942nd most popular biologist (down from 917th in 2019), the 821st most popular biography from Greece (up from 10,558th in 2019) and the most popular Greek Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Murrill ranks 942 out of 1,097. Before him are William Beebe, Johann Friedrich Adam, Joseph Barcroft, Thomas Pennant, Lilian Gibbs, and Rudolf Schlechter. After him are Nigel Marven, Elizabeth F. Neufeld, Charles Walter De Vis, Ryuta Kawashima, Nicole Marthe Le Douarin, and Irene Manton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, William Murrill ranks 146. Before him are Bill Haywood, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Gerrit Smith Miller, Zaida Ben-Yusuf, Booth Tarkington, and Stephen Leacock. After him are Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Tom Kiely, George Caridia, Charley Grapewin, and Bertha Townsend. Among people deceased in 1957, William Murrill ranks 201. Before him are József Rády, Julio Lozano Díaz, Kurt Pettersén, James M. Cox, Helene Costello, and Grigory Landsberg. After him are Guillaume Grandidier, Ralph Barton Perry, Mary Proctor, Jack Butler Yeats, Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, and Ezio Pinza.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, William Murrill ranks 821 out of 1,024. Before him are Joachim IV of Constantinople (1837), Konstantinos Dovas (1898), Georgios Samaras (1985), Robert Kagan (1958), Thomas Mavros (1954), and Vassilios Skouris (1948). After him are Thalia Flora-Karavia (1871), Dimitris Avramopoulos (1953), Thanos Mikroutsikos (1947), Nikos Dendias (1959), Evripidis Bakirtzis (1895), and Kostas Katsouranis (1979).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Greece

Among biologists born in Greece, William Murrill ranks 1. 

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