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Joseph Dalton Hooker

1817 - 1911

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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For 20 years he served as director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, succeeding his father, William Jackson Hooker, and was awarded the highest honours of British science. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Dalton Hooker is the 171st most popular biologist (up from 255th in 2019), the 965th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,433rd in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joseph Dalton Hooker ranks 171 out of 1,097. Before him are Henry Walter Bates, Louis Agassiz, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, Leland H. Hartwell, William Bateson, and Mathurin Jacques Brisson. After him are John Ray, Norman Borlaug, Adolf Engler, George Robert Gray, Dmitri Ivanovsky, and Alexander Agassiz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Joseph Dalton Hooker ranks 14. Before him are Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Charles-François Daubigny, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Carl Nägeli, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, and Niels Gade. After him are Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Princess Clémentine of Orléans, Theodor Storm, Hermann Lotze, Pierre Larousse, and Austen Henry Layard. Among people deceased in 1911, Joseph Dalton Hooker ranks 13. Before him are Pyotr Stolypin, Paul Lafargue, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Emilio Salgari, Georg Jellinek, and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. After him are Mahboob Ali Khan, Maria Pia of Savoy, Laura Marx, Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg, Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, and Valentin Serov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Dalton Hooker ranks 965 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Malory (1405), Francis Hutcheson (1694), Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), Edmund Spenser (1552), Jessica Tandy (1909), and Brenda Blethyn (1946). After him are Robert FitzRoy (1805), John Ray (1627), Leonora Carrington (1917), James Hadley Chase (1906), Kim Cattrall (1956), and John Dryden (1631).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Joseph Dalton Hooker ranks 31. Before him are William Jackson Hooker (1785), Oliver Smithies (1925), Martin Evans (1941), Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), Henry Walter Bates (1825), and William Bateson (1861). After him are John Ray (1627), George Robert Gray (1808), Anna Atkins (1799), Julian Huxley (1887), Joseph Banks (1743), and William Carey (1761).

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