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John Hutton Balfour

1808 - 1884

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John Hutton Balfour (15 September 1808 – 11 February 1884) was a Scottish botanist. Balfour became a Professor of Botany, first at the University of Glasgow in 1841, moving to the University of Edinburgh and also becoming the 7th Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Her Majesty's Botanist in 1845. He held these posts until his retirement in 1879. He was nicknamed Woody Fibre. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Hutton Balfour is the 848th most popular biologist (up from 961st in 2019), the 3,830th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,873rd in 2019) and the 125th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Hutton Balfour ranks 848 out of 1,097. Before him are Albert William Herre, Clinton Hart Merriam, Beatrice Mintz, Aharon Katzir, Astrid Cleve, and William Kirby. After him are John Kunkel Small, Carl Fredrik Fallén, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Arthur Gardiner Butler, and Nikolay Drozdov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, John Hutton Balfour ranks 57. Before him are Josef Kajetán Tyl, Salmon P. Chase, Henry Edward Manning, John Taylor, Antonio Arenas, and Constantin Negruzzi. After him are Franz Theodor Kugler, Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Manuel Isidoro Belzu, Wendela Hebbe, Michael William Balfe, and José Rufino Echenique. Among people deceased in 1884, John Hutton Balfour ranks 60. Before him are Jean-Augustin Barral, Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Heinrich Göppert, Daniel Harrwitz, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, and Andon Bedros IX Hassoun. After him are Judah P. Benjamin, Menyhért Lónyay, Arnold Henry Guyot, Heinrich Laube, Alfred Francis Russell, and Quintino Sella.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Hutton Balfour ranks 3,831 out of 8,785. Before him are Ronald Knox (1888), Patrick Moore (1923), Hanif Kureishi (1954), Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850), William Kirby (1759), and Andy Bell (1970). After him are Phil Neal (1951), Arthur Russell (1886), Archie Panjabi (1972), Tony Kaye (1945), Clare Hollingworth (1911), and Jon Hiseman (1944).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Hutton Balfour ranks 125. Before him are Herbert Giles (1845), John Abbot (1751), Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800), John Gerard (1545), Osbert Salvin (1835), and William Kirby (1759). After him are Arthur Gardiner Butler (1844), D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860), Everard Home (1756), William Sherard (1659), Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809), and Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (1800).

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