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Henry Walter Bates

1825 - 1892

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Henry Walter Bates (8 February 1825 – 16 February 1892) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the rainforests of the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace, starting in 1848. Wallace returned in 1852, but lost his collection on the return voyage when his ship caught fire. When Bates arrived home in 1859 after a full eleven years, he had sent back over 14,712 species (mostly of insects) of which 8,000 were (according to Bates, but see Van Wyhe) new to science. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Walter Bates is the 165th most popular biologist (up from 192nd in 2019), the 929th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,098th in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Henry Walter Bates ranks 165 out of 1,097. Before him are Nettie Stevens, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Salvador Luria, George Davis Snell, Renato Dulbecco, and Mario Capecchi. After him are Louis Agassiz, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, Leland H. Hartwell, William Bateson, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, and Joseph Dalton Hooker.

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Among people born in 1825, Henry Walter Bates ranks 12. Before him are Jean-Martin Charcot, Johann Jakob Balmer, Julia, Princess of Battenberg, Charles Garnier, Charles Frederick Worth, and Paul Kruger. After him are Eduard Hanslick, Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria, Emil Erlenmeyer, Marie of Prussia, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, and Nubar Pasha. Among people deceased in 1892, Henry Walter Bates ranks 19. Before him are Louis Vuitton, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, Deodoro da Fonseca, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and August Wilhelm von Hofmann. After him are Thomas Cook, Tewfik Pasha, Charles Spurgeon, Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, George Biddell Airy, and Olga Nikolaevna of Russia.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Walter Bates ranks 929 out of 8,785. Before him are George Smith (1840), David Coverdale (1951), Charles Wheatstone (1802), William Wilberforce (1759), Kenny Dalglish (1951), and Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853). After him are E. M. Forster (1879), William Parry (1790), E. H. Carr (1892), John Harrison (1693), Jim Broadbent (1949), and Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset (1499).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Henry Walter Bates ranks 29. Before him are Erasmus Darwin (1731), Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), William Jackson Hooker (1785), Oliver Smithies (1925), Martin Evans (1941), and Charles Scott Sherrington (1952). After him are William Bateson (1861), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), John Ray (1627), George Robert Gray (1808), Anna Atkins (1799), and Julian Huxley (1887).

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