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Anna Atkins

1799 - 1871

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Anna Atkins (née Children; 16 March 1799 – 9 June 1871) was an English botanist and photographer. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images. Some sources say that she was the first woman to create a photograph. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anna Atkins is the 188th most popular biologist (down from 180th in 2019), the 1,053rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,033rd in 2019) and the 34th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Anna Atkins ranks 188 out of 1,097. Before her are Giovanni Sartori, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Charles Bonnet, Paul Greengard, Armand David, and Martinus Beijerinck. After her are Julius Richard Petri, Julian Huxley, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Alexander Georg von Bunge, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, and Bruce Beutler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Anna Atkins ranks 13. Before her are Mary Anning, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Fromental Halévy, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Princess Maria Anna of Saxony, and Karl Bryullov. After her are Rodolphe Töpffer, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, John Lindley, Karl Adolph von Basedow, and Ferenc Gyulay. Among people deceased in 1871, Anna Atkins ranks 11. Before her are Augustus De Morgan, Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Michael Thonet, Louise of the Netherlands, Omar Pasha, and Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin. After her are Sigismond Thalberg, Robert Anderson, Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha, Alexander Afanasyev, and Wilhelm Weitling.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anna Atkins ranks 1,053 out of 8,785. Before her are William Webb Ellis (1806), Ninian (360), Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864), Robert Knox (1791), Katherine Woodville, Duchess of Buckingham (1458), and Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878). After her are Julian Huxley (1887), Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738), John Balliol (1249), P. G. Wodehouse (1881), James Lovelock (1919), and Tim Roth (1961).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Anna Atkins ranks 34. Before her are Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), Henry Walter Bates (1825), William Bateson (1861), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), John Ray (1627), and George Robert Gray (1808). After her are Julian Huxley (1887), Joseph Banks (1743), William Carey (1761), Oldfield Thomas (1858), J. B. S. Haldane (1892), and Thomas Browne (1605).

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