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David Douglas

1799 - 1834

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David Douglas (25 June 1799 – 12 July 1834) was a Scottish botanist, best known as the namesake of the Douglas fir. He worked as a gardener, and explored the Scottish Highlands, North America and Hawaii, where he died. The standard author abbreviation Douglas is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Douglas is the 373rd most popular biologist (up from 989th in 2019), the 1,933rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,122nd in 2019) and the 59th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, David Douglas ranks 373 out of 1,097. Before him are Olof Swartz, Joel Asaph Allen, Charles Plumier, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Otto Kuntze, and August Batsch. After him are Georg Joseph Kamel, Frank Chapman, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Nikolai Severtzov, John Maynard Smith, and Samuel Frederick Gray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, David Douglas ranks 24. Before him are Karl Adolph von Basedow, Ferenc Gyulay, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Almeida Garrett, René Caillié, and Vincenz Priessnitz. After him are Ignaz von Döllinger, Duchess Amelia of Württemberg, Countess of Ségur, Ludwig Rellstab, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, and Jedediah Smith. Among people deceased in 1834, David Douglas ranks 24. Before him are William Wirt, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Aleksey Arakcheyev, Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, and James Weddell. After him are Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, Robert Morrison, Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium, Elisa Radziwiłł, Giovanni Aldini, and Jean Louis Marie Poiret.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Douglas ranks 1,933 out of 8,785. Before him are Victor McLaglen (1886), Allen Carr (1934), William Caxton (1422), Paul Rodgers (1949), Thor Vilhjálmsson (1925), and Mark Fisher (1968). After him are Princess Mary of Great Britain (1723), Thomas Wyatt (1503), Robert Filmer (1588), Samantha Fox (1966), Colin Wilson (1931), and Edward L. G. Bowell (1943).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, David Douglas ranks 59. Before him are Ian Wilmut (1944), Patrick Geddes (1854), Edward Blyth (1810), George Robert Waterhouse (1810), Nehemiah Grew (1641), and Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847). After him are John Maynard Smith (1920), Samuel Frederick Gray (1766), Matt Ridley (1958), William Elford Leach (1791), June Almeida (1930), and Arthur Tansley (1871).

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