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Alice Eastwood

1859 - 1953

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Alice Eastwood (January 19, 1859 – October 30, 1953) was a Canadian American botanist. She is credited with building the botanical collection at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. She published over 310 scientific articles and authored 395 land plant species names, the fourth-highest number of such names authored by any female scientist. There are seventeen currently recognized species named for her, as well as the genera Eastwoodia and Aliciella. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alice Eastwood is the 974th most popular biologist (up from 1,045th in 2019), the 533rd most popular biography from Canada (up from 745th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Canadian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alice Eastwood ranks 974 out of 1,097. Before her are Richard Evans Schultes, Irene Manton, Nicole Marthe Le Douarin, Tilly Edinger, Yasutomi Nishizuka, and James Chapin. After her are Sydney Parkinson, Miriam Rothschild, Johann Gottfried Zinn, Zinaida Yermolyeva, Dukinfield Henry Scott, and Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Alice Eastwood ranks 133. Before her are Alfredo Baquerizo, Victor Herbert, Juan Antonio Escurra, José Sánchez-Guerra y Martínez, Vincenzo Cerulli, and Kei Okami. After her are Paolo Orsi, Vjenceslav Novak, August von Gödrich, Sigurd Ibsen, Theobald Smith, and Christopher Hornsrud. Among people deceased in 1953, Alice Eastwood ranks 174. Before her are Millard Mitchell, Snowy Baker, James J. Jeffries, Maria Andreyeva, Henri Padé, and Reginald Wingate. After her are Auguste Giroux, Maud Gonne, Rudolph Schindler, Robert Stangland, James Scullin, and Francis Ford.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Alice Eastwood ranks 533 out of 1,622. Before her are David Furnish (1962), Ross Taylor (1902), Lucile Wheeler (1935), Bernard Lonergan (1904), Jack Pickford (1896), and Val Venis (1971). After her are Dorothy Brookshaw (1912), Emily VanCamp (1986), Romeo Rivers (1907), Dwight Lodeweges (1957), Ashleigh Ball (1983), and Michel Chossudovsky (1946).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Canada

Among biologists born in Canada, Alice Eastwood ranks 8. Before her are Robert H. MacArthur (1930), John Murray (1841), David Suzuki (1936), George Romanes (1848), Colin Munro MacLeod (1909), and William Diller Matthew (1871). After her are Alice Wilson (1881), Peter Watts (1958), Philip J. Currie (1949), Carrie Derick (1862), Severn Cullis-Suzuki (1979), and Cordelia Fine (1975).

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