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Joseph Leidy

1823 - 1891

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Joseph Mellick Leidy (September 9, 1823 – April 30, 1891) was an American paleontologist, parasitologist and anatomist. Leidy was professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, later becoming a professor of natural history at Swarthmore College and the director of scientific and educational programs at the Wagner Free Institute of Science. His book Extinct Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska (1869) contained many species not previously described and many previously unknown on the North American continent. At the time, scientific investigation was largely the province of wealthy amateurs. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Leidy is the 593rd most popular biologist (up from 713th in 2019), the 5,143rd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,528th in 2019) and the 87th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joseph Leidy ranks 593 out of 1,097. Before him are Jean Baptiste Boisduval, William Speirs Bruce, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Georg Ossian Sars, Johann Friedrich Meckel, and Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau. After him are Charles De Geer, Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Tsuneko Okazaki, John Murray, Francisco J. Ayala, and George Clifford III.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Joseph Leidy ranks 51. Before him are Marietta Alboni, Giuseppe Fiorelli, Alfred Stevens, Friedrich von Esmarch, Paul Janet, and José María Iglesias. After him are Jules Émile Planchon, Mary Surratt, Gustav Adolf, Cardinal Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Lascăr Catargiu, and Ivan Aksakov. Among people deceased in 1891, Joseph Leidy ranks 76. Before him are José María Iglesias, Charles Stewart Parnell, Ludvig Lorenz, Sanjō Sanetomi, Carl Johan Thyselius, and Antero de Quental. After him are Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, James Russell Lowell, Domenico Agostini, Staka Skenderova, August von Pelzeln, and Antonio Ciseri.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Leidy ranks 5,143 out of 20,380. Before him are Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892), Dave Schultz (1959), Rosalyn Tureck (1914), Robert Monroe (1915), Rebecca Romijn (1972), and Sam Rivers (1923). After him are Red Auerbach (1917), Jeff Conaway (1950), Ray Romano (1957), Russell Banks (1940), Charlie Christian (1916), and George Seaton (1911).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Joseph Leidy ranks 87. Before him are Robert Sapolsky (1957), Wilder Penfield (1891), David Starr Jordan (1851), George Newbold Lawrence (1806), Mary Agnes Chase (1869), and Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859). After him are Aldo Leopold (1887), Charles David Keeling (1928), Charles Horton Peck (1833), Eugene Odum (1913), Walter Sutton (1877), and Albert Charles Smith (1906).

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