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James Edward Smith

1759 - 1828

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Sir James Edward Smith (2 December 1759 – 17 March 1828) was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Edward Smith is the 119th most popular biologist (up from 393rd in 2019), the 730th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,099th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, James Edward Smith ranks 119 out of 1,097. Before him are Hermann Joseph Muller, Vladimir Vernadsky, William John Swainson, Elias Magnus Fries, John B. Calhoun, and Ferdinand Cohn. After him are Sylvia Earle, Carl Peter Thunberg, John Hopfield, Erasmus Darwin, Carl Nägeli, and Hans Christian Gram.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1759, James Edward Smith ranks 8. Before him are Georges Danton, Mary Wollstonecraft, Joseph Fouché, William Pitt the Younger, Robert Burns, and Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia. After him are Maria Feodorovna, Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, Clotilde of France, William Wilberforce, and Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp. Among people deceased in 1828, James Edward Smith ranks 5. Before him are Franz Schubert, Francisco Goya, Charlotte, Princess Royal, and Shaka. After him are Carl Peter Thunberg, Victor of Aveyron, Maria Feodorovna, Kobayashi Issa, Alexander Ypsilantis, Franz Joseph Gall, and William Hyde Wollaston.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Edward Smith ranks 730 out of 8,785. Before him are Philippa of Lancaster (1360), Antony Hewish (1924), Albert Finney (1936), Geoffrey Hinton (1947), William Shockley (1910), and George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859). After him are Herbert C. Brown (1912), Aubrey Beardsley (1872), Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969), Robert II of Scotland (1316), William Beckford (1760), and Lionel Robbins (1898).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, James Edward Smith ranks 22. Before him are Michael Houghton (1949), Richard Owen (1804), Archibald Hill (1886), Philip Sclater (1829), Philip Miller (1691), and William John Swainson (1789). After him are Erasmus Darwin (1731), Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), William Jackson Hooker (1785), Oliver Smithies (1925), Martin Evans (1941), and Charles Scott Sherrington (1952).

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