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William Speirs Bruce

1867 - 1921

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William Speirs Bruce (1 August 1867 – 28 October 1921) was a British naturalist, polar scientist and oceanographer who organised and led the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (SNAE, 1902–04) to the South Orkney Islands and the Weddell Sea. Among other achievements, the expedition established the first permanent weather station in Antarctica. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Speirs Bruce has received more than 138,301 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. William Speirs Bruce is the 346th most popular biologist (up from 425th in 2019), the 2,021st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,253rd in 2019) and the 55th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Speirs Bruce ranks 346 out of 841Before him are Leizu, Charles Chamberland, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, and Eugen Fischer. After him are Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, Carl Sigismund Kunth, Göran Wahlenberg, Antonio José Cavanilles, Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, and Odoardo Beccari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, William Speirs Bruce ranks 78Before him are Patriarch Sergius of Moscow, Konstantin Balmont, Dagny Juel, Amy Beach, Nilo Peçanha, and Dimitrios Gounaris. After him are Arnold Bennett, Holger Pedersen, Prince Henri of Orléans, Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria, Maximilian Bircher-Benner, and Ivan Grohar. Among people deceased in 1921, William Speirs Bruce ranks 64Before him are Agenor Maria Gołuchowski, Hans Hartwig von Beseler, Charles Joseph Bonaparte, Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Émile Combes, and Christina Nilsson. After him are Pierre Cuypers, Déodat de Séverac, Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Eduardo Dato, Mirza Kuchik Khan, and Gabriela Zapolska.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Speirs Bruce ranks 2,021 out of 7,765Before him are Edward Colston (1636), Elihu Thomson (1853), Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (1640), Donald Crisp (1882), Eddie Irvine (1965), and Hugh Dowding (1882). After him are Charlie Hunnam (1980), Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (1924), Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (1890), Quentin Skinner (1940), David C. H. Austin (1926), and Arthur Hughes (1832).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Speirs Bruce ranks 55Before him are Roderick Murchison (1792), Nehemiah Grew (1641), Ian Wilmut (1944), John Stevens Henslow (1796), John Needham (1713), and John Sulston (1942). After him are John Maynard Smith (1920), Paul Nurse (1949), William Hudson (1730), Oldfield Thomas (1858), Francis Darwin (1848), and William Aiton (1731).