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David Don

1799 - 1841

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David Don (21 December 1799 – 15 December 1841) was a Scottish botanist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Don is the 770th most popular biologist (down from 641st in 2019), the 3,486th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,107th in 2019) and the 112th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, David Don ranks 770 out of 1,097. Before him are John Ellis, George Prideaux Robert Harris, Hwang Woo-suk, Wilhelm Weinberg, Otto von Münchhausen, and Emmanuel Drake del Castillo. After him are Robert Ridgway, C. B. van Niel, Mary F. Lyon, Richard Wettstein, Herbert Copeland, and Édouard Spach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, David Don ranks 47. Before him are Petrache Poenaru, Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, Robert von Mohl, Heinrich von Kittlitz, Eliza Acton, and Fyodor Bruni. After him are Heinrich von Gagern, Nathaniel Palmer, Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, George Finlay, František Čelakovský, and Frederick Catherwood. Among people deceased in 1841, David Don ranks 39. Before him are Alessandro Rolla, Louis de Freycinet, Ignaz von Seyfried, Luis Eduardo Pérez, Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg, and Georg Anton Friedrich Ast. After him are Alexander Burnes, Jørgen Jørgensen, David Wilkie, Alexander Shishkov, Francis Leggatt Chantrey, and Astley Cooper.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Don ranks 3,487 out of 8,785. Before him are William Davies Evans (1790), Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762), Barry Ackroyd (1954), Abraham Darby I (1678), Melita Norwood (1912), and John Walter Gregory (1864). After him are Gabrielle Anwar (1970), Anita Brookner (1928), Garry Chalk (1952), John Benbow (1653), Pybba of Mercia (570), and David Murray (1909).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, David Don ranks 112. Before him are John Anderson (1833), Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761), Thomas Bell (1792), William Roxburgh (1751), Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803), and John Hutchinson (1884). After him are Mary F. Lyon (1925), Albert Bruce Jackson (1876), Richard Thomas Lowe (1802), Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855), Lilian Gibbs (1870), and William Thomas Blanford (1832).

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