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Annie Montague Alexander

1867 - 1950

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Annie Montague Alexander (29 December 1867 – 10 September 1950) was an explorer, naturalist, paleontological collector, and philanthropist. She founded the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ). From its establishment in 1908 until she died in 1950 she financed the museum's collections and supported a series of paleontological expeditions throughout the western United States. Alexander herself took part in many of these expeditions, accumulating a significant collection of fossils and exotic game animals that she would later donate to the museum. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Annie Montague Alexander is the 1,007th most popular biologist (up from 1,054th in 2019), the 10,394th most popular biography from United States (up from 13,258th in 2019) and the 154th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Annie Montague Alexander ranks 1,007 out of 1,097. Before her are Elizabeth F. Neufeld, G. Ledyard Stebbins, Jacques Miller, Edward Lhuyd, Walter Migula, and Rosa Smith Eigenmann. After her are Alice Wilson, Charles Sprague Sargent, Charles B. Cory, Nigel Marven, Annie Lorrain Smith, and Judah Folkman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Annie Montague Alexander ranks 146. Before her are Carlos Eugenio Restrepo, George William Russell, Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane, Simon Guggenheim, José Vicente Concha, and Florence Fuller. After her are Henry Lawson, William Dod, Edith Hamilton, Anders Peter Nielsen, Flora Finch, and Alec B. Francis. Among people deceased in 1950, Annie Montague Alexander ranks 189. Before her are Riccardo Nowak, Jaroslav Kvapil, Pierre Prüm, Hubert Stevens, Conrad Christensen, and Marguerite De La Motte. After her are Anders Peter Nielsen, Sid Grauman, Monty Banks, Lesley Ashburner, Alice Stone Blackwell, and Charles R. Drew.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Annie Montague Alexander ranks 10,396 out of 20,380. Before her are Ralph Barton Perry (1876), Rachel Nichols (1980), Rosa Smith Eigenmann (1858), Ashley Benson (1989), Fred Armisen (1966), and Rian Johnson (1973). After her are Glenn Medeiros (1970), Mildred Cohn (1913), Tiffany Young (1989), Jonathan Safran Foer (1977), Larry Williams (1935), and Taboo (1975).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Annie Montague Alexander ranks 154. Before her are Herbert Boyer (1936), Theobald Smith (1859), Samuel Garman (1843), Edward William Nelson (1855), G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906), and Rosa Smith Eigenmann (1858). After her are Charles Sprague Sargent (1841), Charles B. Cory (1857), Judah Folkman (1933), Elliott Coues (1842), John Bartram (1699), and Ruth Patrick (1907).

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