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Asuman Baytop

1920 - 2015

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Asuman Baytop (27 March 1920 – 18 February 2015) was a Turkish botanist, plant collector, pharmacologist, and educator known for her research regarding the medicinal properties of the flora of Turkey. In 1964, she founded the Department of Pharmaceutical Botany at Istanbul University, and established the department's herbarium, to which she contributed more than 23,000 specimens. She is also noted for describing several species of crocus, and the species Allium baytopiorum and Colchicum baytopiorum are named in her honour. She was married to fellow botanist Turhan Baytop. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Asuman Baytop is the 1,040th most popular biologist (up from 1,044th in 2019), the 1,266th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 1,318th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Turkish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Asuman Baytop ranks 1,040 out of 1,097. Before her are Elmer McCollum, Aristid Lindenmayer, Ethelwynn Trewavas, E. B. Ford, Peter Duesberg, and Lucy Shapiro. After her are Francis Walker, Bryan Sykes, Timothy Ray Brown, Peter Watts, Margaret Morse Nice, and Ronald M. Evans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Asuman Baytop ranks 428. Before her are Julio Bolbochán, Sammy Lee, Joyce King, Virginia Christine, Duncan Hamilton, and Les Leston. After her are Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Aldo Ghira, McDonald Bailey, Ruth Graham, Jimmy Witherspoon, and Ronald Pope. Among people deceased in 2015, Asuman Baytop ranks 475. Before her are Mokhtar Belmokhtar, Stein Eriksen, Jim Loscutoff, Origa, Lyubov Kozyreva, and Ferenc Konrád. After her are Don Howe, Florența Mihai, Jeanna Friske, Lorena Rojas, Shirley Stelfox, and Isa Munayev.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Asuman Baytop ranks 1,266 out of 1,347. Before her are Hedo Türkoğlu (1979), Aytaç Yalman (1940), Akın Akınözü (1990), Engin Altan Düzyatan (1979), Meltem Cumbul (1969), and Arthur Edmund Carewe (1884). After her are Zehra Güneş (1999), Cengiz Ünder (1997), Burcu Özberk (1989), Aykut Kocaman (1965), Mehmet Topal (1986), and Mehmet Kurtuluş (1972).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Türkiye

Among biologists born in Türkiye, Asuman Baytop ranks 3. Before her are Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1783), and Sabiha Kasimati (1912).

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