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David Goodall

1914 - 2018

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David William Goodall (4 April 1914 – 10 May 2018) was an English-born Australian botanist and ecologist. He was influential in the early development of statistical methods in plant communities. He worked as researcher and professor in England, Australia, Ghana and the United States. He was editor-in-chief of the 30-volume Ecosystems of the World series of books, and author of over 100 publications. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Goodall is the 263rd most popular biologist (up from 890th in 2019), the 1,467th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,335th in 2019) and the 45th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, David Goodall ranks 263 out of 1,097. Before him are Frédéric Cuvier, Eva Ekeblad, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Pierre Belon, Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, and Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link. After him are Carl Sigismund Kunth, Friedrich Parrot, Erik Pontoppidan, Alexander von Middendorff, Carl Gustav Carus, and Desmond Morris.

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Among people born in 1914, David Goodall ranks 87. Before him are Larbi Benbarek, Asger Jorn, Taizo Kawamoto, Woody Strode, Edmund Conen, and Achille Compagnoni. After him are Lina Bo Bardi, Adriaan Blaauw, Lazar Koliševski, Nicolas de Staël, Pietro Germi, and John Kerr. Among people deceased in 2018, David Goodall ranks 95. Before him are Alan Bean, E. C. George Sudarshan, Henri Michel, Efraín Ríos Montt, Irena Szewińska, and Hayden White. After him are Odvar Nordli, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Samir Amin, Oskar Gröning, Nicole Fontaine, and Paul Andreu.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Goodall ranks 1,467 out of 8,785. Before him are Alison Steadman (1946), Kate Beckinsale (1973), William Walton (1902), Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693), Steven Berkoff (1937), and Honor Blackman (1925). After him are Rod Evans (1947), Paul Di'Anno (1958), David Hemmings (1941), Bob Paisley (1919), Catherine Bell (1968), and Steve Hackett (1950).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, David Goodall ranks 45. Before him are J. B. S. Haldane (1892), Thomas Browne (1605), John Lindley (1799), William Aiton (1731), Charles Bell (1774), and Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942). After him are Desmond Morris (1928), Jack W. Szostak (1952), John Gould (1804), George Bentham (1800), Edward Turner Bennett (1797), and George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799).

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