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Joseph Banks

1743 - 1820

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Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, (24 February [O.S. 13 February] 1743 – 19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences. Banks made his name on the 1766 natural-history expedition to Newfoundland and Labrador. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768–1771), visiting Brazil, Tahiti, and after 6 months in New Zealand, Australia, returning to immediate fame. He held the position of president of the Royal Society for over 41 years. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Banks is the 200th most popular biologist (up from 213th in 2019), the 1,087th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,235th in 2019) and the 36th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joseph Banks ranks 200 out of 1,097. Before him are Bruce Beutler, Jack Horner, Walther Flemming, Michel Adanson, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, and Hermann Schlegel. After him are Har Gobind Khorana, César Milstein, Ludwig Reichenbach, Wilhelm Johannsen, George C. Williams, and Hans Driesch.

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Among people born in 1743, Joseph Banks ranks 16. Before him are Nicolai Abildgaard, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Carl Peter Thunberg, Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, and René Just Haüy. After him are Gavrila Derzhavin, Edmund Cartwright, William I, Elector of Hesse, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, and Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano. Among people deceased in 1820, Joseph Banks ranks 12. Before him are Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, François Christophe de Kellermann, Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, François Joseph Lefebvre, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, and Manuel Belgrano. After him are Henri Christophe, Anders Sparrman, Gia Long, Jean-Lambert Tallien, William Wyatt Bibb, and Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Banks ranks 1,087 out of 8,785. Before him are Keith Moon (1946), George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866), Colin Baker (1943), Pete Townshend (1945), Alasdair MacIntyre (1929), and Edward Burne-Jones (1833). After him are Jacqueline du Pré (1945), Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (1506), Sarah, Duchess of York (1959), Karl Jenkins (1944), Rosamunde Pilcher (1924), and Frank Lloyd (1886).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Joseph Banks ranks 36. Before him are William Bateson (1861), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), John Ray (1627), George Robert Gray (1808), Anna Atkins (1799), and Julian Huxley (1887). After him are William Carey (1761), Oldfield Thomas (1858), J. B. S. Haldane (1892), Thomas Browne (1605), John Lindley (1799), and William Aiton (1731).

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