BIOLOGIST

Hugh Edwin Strickland

1811 - 1853

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Hugh Edwin Strickland (2 March 1811 – 14 September 1853) was an English geologist, ornithologist, naturalist and systematist. Through the British Association, he proposed a series of rules for the nomenclature of organisms in zoology, known as the Strickland Code, that was a precursor of later codes for nomenclature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugh Edwin Strickland is the 894th most popular biologist (up from 950th in 2019), the 4,055th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,770th in 2019) and the 140th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Hugh Edwin Strickland ranks 894 out of 1,097Before him are William Townsend Aiton, Tokiharu Abe, Peter Ascanius, Johann August Ephraim Goeze, Paul Henri Lecomte, and Frederic Clements. After him are Benjamin Smith Barton, Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim, Ángel Cabrera, Alfred G. Knudson, Marmaduke Tunstall, and Otto Bütschli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Hugh Edwin Strickland ranks 65Before him are Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, James Hall, John Neumann, Katarina Ivanović, Judah P. Benjamin, and Diomidis Kyriakos. After him are Victor Duruy, Henry Liddell, Karl Ludwig Littrow, John William Casilear, Alfred Domett, and Charles Sumner. Among people deceased in 1853, Hugh Edwin Strickland ranks 52Before him are Andrés Narvarte, Joseph von Radowitz, Tommaso Grossi, Ditlev Blunck, Lucas Alamán, and Melchior von Diepenbrock. After him are Manuel María Lombardini, Sarah Goodridge, Tabitha Babbitt, José Ramón Rodil, 1st Marquess of Rodil, Charles James Napier, and Amelia Opie.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hugh Edwin Strickland ranks 4,056 out of 8,785Before him are Ben Nicholson (1894), Patrick Malahide (1945), William Henry Smyth (1788), Claire Williams (1976), George Galloway (1954), and Dean Smith (1971). After him are Robert Douglas (1909), Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough (1681), Andrew Planche (1727), Phil Anderson (1958), Rupert Friend (1981), and Dele Alli (1996).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Hugh Edwin Strickland ranks 140Before him are Ann Bishop (1899), William Hemsley (1843), Henry Baker (1698), Charles Tate Regan (1878), Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), and William Townsend Aiton (1766). After him are Marmaduke Tunstall (1743), Louis Fraser (1810), Joseph Barcroft (1872), Keith Campbell (1954), Jenny Clack (1947), and Edward Newton (1832).