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Clarke Abel

1780 - 1826

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Clarke Abel (5 September 1780 – 24 November 1826) was a British surgeon and naturalist. The standard author abbreviation C. Abel is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. He accompanied Lord Amherst on his mission to China in 1816-17 as the embassy's chief medical officer and naturalist, on the recommendation of Sir Joseph Banks. The mission was Britain's second unsuccessful attempt to establish diplomatic relations with China and involved travelling to the Beijing and the famous botanical gardens of Fa Tee (Huadi) near Canton (Fangcun District). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Clarke Abel is the 266th most popular physician (up from 327th in 2019), the 1,516th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,787th in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Clarke Abel ranks 266 out of 726. Before him are May-Britt Moser, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Cicely Saunders, Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, François Magendie, and Caspar Friedrich Wolff. After him are Bernard Kouchner, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Henry Gray, Hieronymus Fabricius, and Thomas Addison.

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Among people born in 1780, Clarke Abel ranks 17. Before him are Sacagawea, Jernej Kopitar, John Forsyth, Mary Somerville, Bernardino Rivadavia, and Karl Nesselrode. After him are Tudor Vladimirescu, Conradin Kreutzer, Richard Mentor Johnson, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Angelica Catalani, and Georgios Karaiskakis. Among people deceased in 1826, Clarke Abel ranks 22. Before him are Elizabeth Alexeievna, Johann Elert Bode, Levin August von Bennigsen, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Johann Baptist von Spix, and Franz Danzi. After him are Marie-Guillemine Benoist, John Farey Sr., Shaykh Ahmad, Conrad Malte-Brun, François-Joseph Talma, and Johann Peter Hebel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Clarke Abel ranks 1,516 out of 8,785. Before him are John Wilkins (1614), Arnold Jackson (1891), Gildas (500), Steve McQueen (1969), Vita Sackville-West (1892), and Peter Green (1946). After him are Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1287), Harthacnut I of Denmark (880), Andy Summers (1942), Susan Boyle (1961), Karen Armstrong (1944), and John Higgins (1975).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Clarke Abel ranks 19. Before him are Thomas Willis (1621), Frederick Griffith (1879), John Langdon Down (1828), Mungo Park (1771), James Lind (1716), and Cicely Saunders (1918). After him are Henry Gray (1827), Thomas Addison (1793), Thomas Hodgkin (1798), William Gull (1816), John Latham (1740), and John Hunter (1728).

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