BIOLOGIST

William Sherard

1659 - 1728

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William Sherard (27 February 1659 – 11 August 1728) was an English botanist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Sherard has received more than 20,310 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. William Sherard is the 919th most popular biologist (down from 689th in 2019), the 4,510th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,462nd in 2019) and the 143rd most popular British Biologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Sherard ranks 919 out of 1,097. Before him are Jan-Just Bos, Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Mark Catesby, Jon E. Ahlquist, Edward Newton, and George Engelmann. After him are Johan Lange, Wilfred Hudson Osgood, Osamu Hayaishi, Victor Motschulsky, Michael Sars, and William Henry Harvey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1659, William Sherard ranks 17. Before him are Adriaen van der Werff, Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Domenico Gabrielli, Damaris Cudworth Masham, David Gregory, and Sophia Elisabet Brenner.  Among people deceased in 1728, William Sherard ranks 20. Before him are Fyodor Apraksin, Jacob Heinrich von Flemming, Cotton Mather, Ogyū Sorai, Anna Sophie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Sherard ranks 4,510 out of 8,785. Before him are James Frain (1968), Morton Betts (1847), Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), Almroth Wright (1861), Zak Starkey (1965), and Owain Yeoman (1978). After him are Julian Symons (1912), Colin Salmon (1962), Matthew Lewis (1989), Nigella Lawson (1960), Heather Harper (1930), and John Francis Davis (1795).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Sherard ranks 143. Before him are Robert Morison (1620), William Yarrell (1784), Thomas Nuttall (1786), Ann Bishop (1899), Mark Catesby (1683), and Edward Newton (1832). After him are Richard Thomas Lowe (1802), Robert Wight (1796), Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761), Joseph Barcroft (1872), Thomas Pennant (1726), and Lilian Gibbs (1870).

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