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Andrew Smith

1797 - 1872

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Sir Andrew Smith (3 December 1797 – 11 August 1872) was a British surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist. He is considered the father of zoology in South Africa having described many species across a wide range of groups in his major work, Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa. Smith was born in Hawick, Roxburghshire. He qualified in medicine at the University of Edinburgh obtaining an M.D. degree in 1819, having joined the Army Medical Services in 1816. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrew Smith is the 428th most popular biologist (up from 557th in 2019), the 2,173rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,774th in 2019) and the 67th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Andrew Smith ranks 428 out of 1,097. Before him are Joseph Gaertner, Göran Wahlenberg, Blasius Merrem, Pieter Bleeker, Asa Gray, and Karl Eichwald. After him are Abraham Trembley, Ivan Martinov, Paul Gervais, Wilhelm Roux, Roderick Murchison, and Juan Ignacio Molina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Andrew Smith ranks 48. Before him are Antonio Rosmini, Jeremias Gotthelf, Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, George Tupou I, Pierre Leroux, and January Suchodolski. After him are Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Friedrich von Lütke, Gotthilf Hagen, Anthony Panizzi, and Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann. Among people deceased in 1872, Andrew Smith ranks 33. Before him are Zeng Guofan, Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, John Bowring, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg, and Alfred Clebsch. After him are Petar Preradović, Friedrich Welwitsch, Avram Iancu, Horace Greeley, Jacques Babinet, and Kamehameha V.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Andrew Smith ranks 2,173 out of 8,785. Before him are Randolph Churchill (1911), Jeremiah Clarke (1674), Walter Bagehot (1826), Eliza Poe (1787), Lesley-Anne Down (1954), and Max Mallowan (1904). After him are Stephen Dillane (1957), Thomas Henderson (1798), Arthur Aikin (1773), Rachel Kempson (1910), William Allen (1532), and Sophie Kinsella (1969).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Andrew Smith ranks 67. Before him are Samuel Frederick Gray (1766), Matt Ridley (1958), William Elford Leach (1791), June Almeida (1930), Arthur Tansley (1871), and John Needham (1713). After him are Roderick Murchison (1792), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), John Stevens Henslow (1796), Alexander Wilson (1766), Francis Darwin (1848), and Anna Russell (1807).

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