BIOLOGIST

Yang Zhongjian

1897 - 1979

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Yang Zhongjian, also Yang Chung-chien (Chinese: 杨钟健; Wade–Giles: Yang2 Chung1-chien4; 1 June 1897 – 15 January 1979), courtesy name Keqiang (克强), also known as C.C. (Chung Chien) Young, was a Chinese paleontologist and zoologist. He was one of China's foremost vertebrate paleontologists. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yang Zhongjian has received more than 36,986 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Yang Zhongjian is the 808th most popular biologist (down from 780th in 2019), the 937th most popular biography from China and the 2nd most popular Chinese Biologist.

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  • 53.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Yang Zhongjian ranks 808 out of 1,097. Before him are Robert Trivers, José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, Alec Jeffreys, Thomas Thomson, Étienne Pierre Ventenat, and Johann Christoph Wendland. After him are Herbert Copeland, Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey, Alfred Cogniaux, Gottlieb Haberlandt, Félix de Avelar Brotero, and George Edwards.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Yang Zhongjian ranks 254. Before him are Ulises Poirier, Ferruccio Novo, Gregorio Fuentes, Héctor Méndez, Theodora Kroeber, and Áron Tamási. After him are Władysław Broniewski, Ramdas Gandhi, Hans Deppe, Joaquín Vázquez, Gerhard Lamprecht, and Juan Natalicio González. Among people deceased in 1979, Yang Zhongjian ranks 212. Before him are Juan Arremón, Van McCoy, Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi, Erich Rademacher, Theodora Kroeber, and Ermindo Onega. After him are Alessandro Frigerio, Bart McGhee, John Norton, Rolf Holmberg, Aksel Berg, and Lajos Maszlay.

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In China

Among people born in China, Yang Zhongjian ranks 937 out of 1,610. Before him are Ji Pengfei (1910), Jia Zhangke (1970), Ingrid Noll (1935), Wang Shimin (1592), Li Han-hsiang (1926), and Jiang Rong (1946). After him are Hui Liangyu (1944), Gu Kailai (1958), Lidiya Vertinskaya (1923), Ilham Tohti (1969), Ji Xianlin (1911), and Ding Xuexiang (1962).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In China

Among biologists born in China, Yang Zhongjian ranks 2. Before him are Leizu (null). After him are Shi Zhengli (1964), Flossie Wong-Staal (1946), Xu Xing (1969), and Feng Zhang (1981).

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