BIOLOGIST

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 152,943 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). William Speirs Bruce is the 420th most popular biologist (down from 345th in 2019), the 2,195th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,016th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Speirs Bruce ranks 420 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, Guillaume Rondelet, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Alexander Braun, George Robert Waterhouse, and Pehr Kalm. After him are Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Lucien Quélet, Juan Ignacio Molina, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Frédéric Cuvier, and Carl Alexander Clerck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, William Speirs Bruce ranks 90. Before him are Nilo Peçanha, Hjalmar Johansen, Léon Daudet, Alfred Kerr, Giuseppe Morello, and Maximilian Bircher-Benner. After him are Prince Henri of Orléans, John Rogan, Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, Arnold Bennett, George Andrew Reisner, and Max Jakob Friedländer. Among people deceased in 1921, William Speirs Bruce ranks 72. Before him are Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Eduardo Dato, Pierre Cuypers, Alexander Dutov, and Sherburne Wesley Burnham. After him are Mirza Kuchik Khan, Isidor Kaufmann, Alfred Grandidier, Franz Defregger, Gabriela Zapolska, and Déodat de Séverac.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Speirs Bruce ranks 2,195 out of 8,785. Before him are John Paul Jones (1747), Lytton Strachey (1880), Bob Peck (1945), George Robert Waterhouse (1810), Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838), and Paul Young (1956). After him are James Stirling (1692), Clive Sinclair (1940), Caroline Graham (1931), Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874), Norman McLaren (1914), and Mary Bell (1957).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Speirs Bruce ranks 63. Before him are Robert Fortune (1812), James Edward Smith (1759), Gregory Winter (1951), Marie Stopes (1880), John Needham (1713), and George Robert Waterhouse (1810). After him are William Hudson (1730), Edward Daniel Clarke (1769), June Almeida (1930), George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799), Edward Blyth (1810), and Paul Nurse (1949).

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