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Alexander Wetmore

1886 - 1978

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Frank Alexander Wetmore (June 18, 1886 – December 7, 1978) was an American ornithologist and avian paleontologist. He was the sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was also an elected member of both the American Philosophical Society and the United States National Academy of Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Wetmore is the 711th most popular biologist (up from 965th in 2019), the 6,094th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,893rd in 2019) and the 96th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alexander Wetmore ranks 711 out of 1,097. Before him are Rodolfo Amando Philippi, Richard Goldschmidt, Johannes Baptista von Albertini, Anthony R. Hunter, Jean de Thévenot, and Franz Xaver Fieber. After him are Johannes Burman, James Sowerby, Thomas Nuttall, Alessandra Giliani, Alice Hamilton, and Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Alexander Wetmore ranks 202. Before him are Heorhiy Narbut, Austin Osman Spare, Lupu Pick, Alfonso López Pumarejo, Bogoljub Jevtić, and Leo G. Carroll. After him are Willis H. O'Brien, Eddie Owen, Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, Friedebert Tuglas, Ed Wynn, and Jenő Károly. Among people deceased in 1978, Alexander Wetmore ranks 161. Before him are Jānis Daliņš, Leo Ryan, Artem Alikhanian, Kathleen Kenyon, Luo Ruiqing, and Claude Dauphin. After him are Alfred Müller-Armack, Theodor Tolsdorff, Adolf van der Voort van Zijp, Alexander Gerschenkron, Jorge Cafrune, and Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alexander Wetmore ranks 6,094 out of 20,380. Before him are Alexis Bledel (1981), Kevin Smith (1970), William J. Donovan (1883), William Windom (1923), Phyllis Smith (1951), and Peter Straub (1943). After him are Eric Martin (1960), Melissa Mathison (1950), Charlie Robinson (1945), Sonny Barger (1938), Jack Benny (1894), and Sam Witwer (1977).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Alexander Wetmore ranks 96. Before him are Charles Horton Peck (1833), Eugene Odum (1913), Walter Sutton (1877), Albert Charles Smith (1906), Alfred Romer (1894), and Alfred Sturtevant (1891). After him are Alice Hamilton (1869), Thomas Say (1787), Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856), Charles Conrad Abbott (1843), Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823), and Richard Lewontin (1929).

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