BIOLOGIST

David Prain

1857 - 1944

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Sir David Prain (11 July 1857 – 16 March 1944) was a Scottish botanist who worked in India at the Calcutta Botanical Garden and went on to become Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Prain is the 987th most popular biologist (up from 1,028th in 2019), the 4,754th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,689th in 2019) and the 169th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, David Prain ranks 987 out of 1,097. Before him are Lancelot Hogben, Anne McLaren, Alister Hardy, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, Heinrich Kuhl, and Frederic Moore. After him are John Cassin, Max Fürbringer, George Montagu, Gottlieb Haberlandt, Herbert Boyer, and George Engelmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, David Prain ranks 129. Before him are Milton S. Hershey, John Joly, Clarence Darrow, Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, Frank J. Sprague, and Michael Pedersen Friis. After him are Max Weiss, Edward Henry Potthast, Charles B. Cory, Rudolf Thurneysen, Arthur Wesley Dow, and Gertrude Atherton. Among people deceased in 1944, David Prain ranks 293. Before him are George Clausen, Emine Semiye Önasya, Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Walter Middelberg, Lev Shcherba, and John Dill. After him are Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Eugen Burg, Eoin O'Duffy, Franz Berghammer, Octav Băncilă, and Aimee Semple McPherson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Prain ranks 4,755 out of 8,785. Before him are Emily Hobhouse (1860), Jimmy Dickinson (1925), Simon Baron-Cohen (1958), Grahame Clark (1907), Paul McGuigan (1963), and Simon West (1961). After him are Kathleen Booth (1922), Allan Jay (1931), Martin Kelly (1990), Alfred Domett (1811), Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1860), and Oliver Bearman (2005).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, David Prain ranks 169. Before him are Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854), Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902), Lancelot Hogben (1895), Anne McLaren (1927), Alister Hardy (1896), and Frederic Moore (1830). After him are George Montagu (1751), John Claudius Loudon (1783), Edward Lhuyd (1660), Nigel Marven (1960), Annie Lorrain Smith (1854), and Hugh Huxley (1924).

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