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James Dwight Dana

1813 - 1895

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James Dwight Dana FRS FRSE (February 12, 1813 – April 14, 1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of continents and oceans around the world. His zoological author abbreviation is Dana. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Dwight Dana is the 219th most popular biologist (up from 224th in 2019), the 1,894th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,114th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, James Dwight Dana ranks 219 out of 1,097. Before him are Stephan Endlicher, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, J. Michael Bishop, Mikhail Tsvet, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, and Oldfield Thomas. After him are Bert Sakmann, Eric F. Wieschaus, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, August Grisebach, Jeffrey C. Hall, and Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, James Dwight Dana ranks 17. Before him are Baron Alexander von Bach, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, Henry Bessemer, Harriet Jacobs, and Theophil Hansen. After him are Thomas Andrews, Princess Marie of Orléans, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Auguste Maquet, and Jørgen Moe. Among people deceased in 1895, James Dwight Dana ranks 23. Before him are Charles Frederick Worth, Johann Josef Loschmidt, Nikolai Leskov, Friedrich Miescher, Arthur Cayley, and Frederick Douglass. After him are Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Carl Ludwig, Lord Randolph Churchill, Francesco Filippini, Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, and Franz Ernst Neumann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Dwight Dana ranks 1,894 out of 20,380. Before him are Brad Dourif (1950), Tim Johnson (1946), William Tecumseh Sherman (1820), David Cross (1964), Helen Hunt (1963), and Lloyd Bridges (1913). After him are Barry Seal (1939), Ben Gazzara (1930), Elliott Gould (1938), Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929), John Foster Dulles (1888), and Robert Loggia (1930).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, James Dwight Dana ranks 43. Before him are Bruce Beutler (1957), Jack Horner (1946), George C. Williams (1926), George Wald (1906), Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), and J. Michael Bishop (1936). After him are Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), Temple Grandin (1947), Stephen Jay Gould (1941), John du Pont (1938), and H. Robert Horvitz (1947).

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