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Alister Hardy

1896 - 1985

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Sir Alister Clavering Hardy (10 February 1896 – 22 May 1985) was a British marine biologist, an expert on marine ecosystems spanning organisms from zooplankton to whales. He had the artistic skill to illustrate his books with his own drawings, maps, diagrams, and paintings. Hardy served as zoologist on the RRS Discovery's voyage to explore the Antarctic between 1925 and 1927. On the voyage he invented the Continuous Plankton Recorder; it enabled any ship to collect plankton samples during an ordinary voyage. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alister Hardy is the 983rd most popular biologist (down from 953rd in 2019), the 4,733rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,803rd in 2019) and the 167th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alister Hardy ranks 983 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Gottfried Zinn, Zinaida Yermolyeva, Dukinfield Henry Scott, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw, Lancelot Hogben, and Anne McLaren. After him are Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, Heinrich Kuhl, Frederic Moore, David Prain, John Cassin, and Max Fürbringer.

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Among people born in 1896, Alister Hardy ranks 243. Before him are Simon Barere, Albert Ball, Horacio Muñoz, Samuel Mosberg, Robert E. Sherwood, and Gösta Runö. After him are Gopal Swarup Pathak, Rogers Hornsby, Carl Abrahamsson, Rafael Garza Gutiérrez, Liam O'Flaherty, and Howard Hanson. Among people deceased in 1985, Alister Hardy ranks 232. Before him are Riccardo Bacchelli, Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald, Richard Haydn, Jo Jones, Erich Koschik, and Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw. After him are Harold Whitlock, Paul Creston, George O'Brien, Fritz Keller, Tom Richards, and André Bjerke.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alister Hardy ranks 4,734 out of 8,785. Before him are George E. P. Box (1919), Tony Jay (1933), John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough (1926), Nigel Davenport (1928), Jim Kerr (1959), and Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (1783). After him are Joe Elliott (1959), Callum Hudson-Odoi (2000), James McHenry (1753), Wilbert Awdry (1911), John Dill (1881), and Horace Bailey (1881).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Alister Hardy ranks 167. Before him are Sydney Parkinson (1745), Miriam Rothschild (1908), Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854), Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902), Lancelot Hogben (1895), and Anne McLaren (1927). After him are Frederic Moore (1830), David Prain (1857), George Montagu (1751), John Claudius Loudon (1783), Edward Lhuyd (1660), and Nigel Marven (1960).

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