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Joseph Barcroft

1872 - 1947

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Sir Joseph Barcroft (26 July 1872 – 21 March 1947) was a British physiologist best known for his studies of the oxygenation of blood. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Barcroft is the 907th most popular biologist (up from 938th in 2019), the 4,107th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,646th in 2019) and the 143rd most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joseph Barcroft ranks 907 out of 1,097Before him are Johannes Schmidt, Christian Friedrich Ecklon, Palisot de Beauvois, Sereno Watson, Louis Fraser, and Joseph Banks Rhine. After him are Keith Campbell, Carl H. Eigenmann, Stanley Norman Cohen, Jenny Clack, Edward Newton, and Janet Rowley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Joseph Barcroft ranks 169Before him are Walter Wild, Adolphe Grisel, Sarala Devi Chaudhurani, Anna von Mildenburg, Otto Bahr Halvorsen, and Alice Salomon. After him are Nikolai Panin, José María Orellana, Julia Morgan, Horace Rice, Léon Delagrange, and Ivar Lykke. Among people deceased in 1947, Joseph Barcroft ranks 184Before him are Nikolai Chebotaryov, Grantley Goulding, Somnath Sharma, August Blom, Anna von Mildenburg, and Manuel Machado. After him are Frank Heller, Kálmán Tihanyi, Oscar Grégoire, Charles Gondouin, Frederick Russell Burnham, and Ekaterina Karavelova.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Barcroft ranks 4,108 out of 8,785Before him are Lisa Stansfield (1966), Juliet Mills (1941), Edward James (1907), Helen Allingham (1848), Gwyneth Jones (1936), and William Christie (1845). After him are Keith Campbell (1954), Jack Broughton (1703), Flood (1960), Gia Scala (1934), Carlos Raúl Villanueva (1900), and Bob Shaw (1931).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Joseph Barcroft ranks 143Before him are Charles Tate Regan (1878), Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), William Townsend Aiton (1766), Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811), Marmaduke Tunstall (1743), and Louis Fraser (1810). After him are Keith Campbell (1954), Jenny Clack (1947), Edward Newton (1832), Robert Wight (1796), G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903), and Edward Bagnall Poulton (1856).