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John Cassin

1813 - 1869

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John Cassin (September 6, 1813 – January 10, 1869) was an American ornithologist from Pennsylvania. He worked as curator and vice president at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences and focused on the systemic classification of the academy's extensive collection of birds. He was one of the founders of the Delaware County Institute of Science and published several books describing 194 new species of birds. Five species of North American birds, a cicada, and a mineral are named in his honor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Cassin is the 988th most popular biologist (up from 1,039th in 2019), the 9,595th most popular biography from United States (up from 12,489th in 2019) and the 147th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Cassin ranks 988 out of 1,097. Before him are Anne McLaren, Alister Hardy, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, Heinrich Kuhl, Frederic Moore, and David Prain. After him are Max Fürbringer, George Montagu, Gottlieb Haberlandt, Herbert Boyer, George Engelmann, and Theobald Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, John Cassin ranks 76. Before him are Stephen Mallory, Gennady Nevelskoy, Narciso Campero, George Alexander Macfarren, Timofey Granovsky, and Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg. After him are George Peter Alexander Healy, Isaac Pitman, Radhanath Sikdar, Henry Ward Beecher, John Sedgwick, and David Dixon Porter. Among people deceased in 1869, John Cassin ranks 62. Before him are Bertalan Szemere, Robert J. Walker, José Hilario López, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, Charles Sturt, and Peter Mark Roget. After him are Thomas Hodgskin, Henry Jarvis Raymond, Mary Ward, John Bell, William P. Fessenden, and Benjamin Fitzpatrick.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Cassin ranks 9,597 out of 20,380. Before him are Heather Donahue (1974), Peter Schickele (1935), Frederick Muhlenberg (1750), Harold Hackett (1878), Derrick Green (1971), and Gary Kurtz (1940). After him are Rahm Emanuel (1959), Babyface (1958), Molly Shannon (1964), Judy Greer (1975), Joe Arpaio (1932), and Edith Abbott (1876).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, John Cassin ranks 147. Before him are Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835), Osamu Hayaishi (1920), William Healey Dall (1845), John Torrey (1796), Richard Evans Schultes (1915), and James Chapin (1889). After him are Herbert Boyer (1936), Theobald Smith (1859), Samuel Garman (1843), Edward William Nelson (1855), G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906), and Rosa Smith Eigenmann (1858).

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