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Joy Adamson

1910 - 1980

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Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson (née Gessner; 20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, Born Free, describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Born Free was printed in several languages and made into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name. In 1977, she was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joy Adamson is the 251st most popular biologist (up from 380th in 2019), the 370th most popular biography from Austria (up from 587th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Austrian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joy Adamson ranks 251 out of 1,097. Before her are John Lindley, William Aiton, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, H. Robert Horvitz, Harald Sverdrup, and Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider. After her are Johann Baptist von Spix, Albert von Kölliker, Martin Vahl, Henri Milne-Edwards, Charles Bell, and Frédéric Cuvier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Joy Adamson ranks 78. Before her are John Hammond, Ruan Lingyu, Aladár Gerevich, Dorothea Tanning, Pavel Batitsky, and Barthélemy Boganda. After her are Johan Ferrier, Nouhak Phoumsavanh, Louis Slotin, Juan Velasco Alvarado, Hideo Shinojima, and Viktors Arājs. Among people deceased in 1980, Joy Adamson ranks 75. Before her are Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Jim Fouché, Hugh Griffith, Mario Bava, Pascual Jordan, and Winifred Wagner. After her are Raoul Walsh, V. V. Giri, Elvira de Hidalgo, Tex Avery, Masayoshi Ōhira, and Marie Under.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Joy Adamson ranks 370 out of 1,424. Before her are Senta Berger (1941), Raoul Hausmann (1886), Ettore Sottsass (1917), Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia (1204), Camillo Sitte (1843), and Paul Badura-Skoda (1927). After her are Wolfgang Schüssel (1945), Hermann Bahr (1863), Constanze Manziarly (1920), Helmuth Koinigg (1948), Franz Sacher (1816), and Alois Hudal (1885).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among biologists born in Austria, Joy Adamson ranks 6. Before her are Konrad Lorenz (1903), Karl Landsteiner (1868), Karl von Frisch (1886), Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901), and Othenio Abel (1875). After her are Leopold Fitzinger (1802), Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (1735), Erich von Tschermak (1871), Clemens von Pirquet (1874), Otto Stapf (1857), and Franz Steindachner (1834).

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