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Alfred Russel Wallace

1823 - 1913

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Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection; his 1858 paper on the subject was published that year alongside extracts from Charles Darwin's earlier writings on the topic. It spurred Darwin to set aside the "big species book" he was drafting and to quickly write an abstract of it, which was published in 1859 as On the Origin of Species. Wallace did extensive fieldwork, starting in the Amazon River basin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Russel Wallace is the 17th most popular biologist (down from 14th in 2019), the 209th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 156th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Biologist.

Alfred Russel Wallace is most famous for his theory of evolution by natural selection.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alfred Russel Wallace ranks 17 out of 1,097. Before him are Rosalind Franklin, Karl Landsteiner, Robert Edwards, Robert Brown, Georges Cuvier, and George Beadle. After him are Macfarlane Burnet, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Élie Metchnikoff, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Jules Bordet, and Edward Tatum.

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Among people born in 1823, Alfred Russel Wallace ranks 4. Before him are Max Müller, Abdulmejid I, and Phineas Gage. After him are Gyula Andrássy, Ernest Renan, Sándor Petőfi, Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, Leopold Kronecker, Édouard Lalo, Alexandre Cabanel, and Li Hongzhang. Among people deceased in 1913, Alfred Russel Wallace ranks 4. Before him are Ferdinand de Saussure, Rudolf Diesel, and Menelik II. After him are George I of Greece, J. P. Morgan, Harriet Tubman, Tobias Asser, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Lesya Ukrainka, Blanche Monnier, and Alfred von Schlieffen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alfred Russel Wallace ranks 209 out of 8,785. Before him are Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900), Calico Jack (1682), Michael Caine (1933), Rowan Atkinson (1955), Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796), and Mick Jagger (1943). After him are Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930), Howard Carter (1874), James Chadwick (1891), Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (1846), Anthony Giddens (1938), and William Blake (1757).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Alfred Russel Wallace ranks 6. Before him are Charles Darwin (1809), Alexander Fleming (1881), Rosalind Franklin (1920), Robert Edwards (1925), and Robert Brown (1773). After him are John Boyd Orr (1880), Thomas Henry Huxley (1825), John Sulston (1942), Francis Crick (1916), John Edward Gray (1800), and Christian de Duve (1917).

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