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Charles Bell

1774 - 1842

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Sir Charles Bell (12 November 1774 – 28 April 1842) was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist, physiologist, neurologist, artist, and philosophical theologian. He is noted for discovering the difference between sensory nerves and motor nerves in the spinal cord. He is also noted for describing Bell's palsy. His three older brothers included Robert Bell (1757–1816) a Writer to the Signet, John Bell (1763–1820), also a noted surgeon and writer; and the advocate George Joseph Bell (1770–1843) who became a professor of law at the University of Edinburgh and a principal clerk at the Court of Session. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Bell is the 256th most popular biologist (down from 200th in 2019), the 1,433rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,140th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charles Bell ranks 256 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, Joy Adamson, Johann Baptist von Spix, Albert von Kölliker, Martin Vahl, and Henri Milne-Edwards. After him are Frédéric Cuvier, Eva Ekeblad, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Pierre Belon, Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, and Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Charles Bell ranks 15. Before him are Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, William Henry, and Christian Leopold von Buch. After him are Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, André Marie Constant Duméril, Matthew Flinders, Robert Southey, and Francis Baily. Among people deceased in 1842, Charles Bell ranks 17. Before him are Shah Shujah Durrani, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Peter Fendi, José de Espronceda, Dominique Jean Larrey, and Pierre Cambronne. After him are Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Francisco Morazán, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Pierre Joseph Pelletier, Wojciech Żywny, and Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Bell ranks 1,433 out of 8,785. Before him are Victoria Beckham (1974), Alan Watts (1915), Mick Taylor (1949), Louise d'Orléans (1869), Anthony Daniels (1946), and Alice Bailey (1880). After him are David Hamilton (1933), John Kay (1704), Joseph Wright of Derby (1734), Neil Gaiman (1960), Robert Stirling (1790), and Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Charles Bell ranks 43. Before him are William Carey (1761), Oldfield Thomas (1858), J. B. S. Haldane (1892), Thomas Browne (1605), John Lindley (1799), and William Aiton (1731). After him are Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942), David Goodall (1914), Desmond Morris (1928), Jack W. Szostak (1952), John Gould (1804), and George Bentham (1800).

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