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Lancelot Hogben

1895 - 1975

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Lancelot Thomas Hogben FRS FRSE (9 December 1895 – 22 August 1975) was a British experimental zoologist and medical statistician. He developed the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) as a model organism for biological research in his early career, attacked the eugenics movement in the middle of his career, and wrote popular books on science, mathematics and language in his later career. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lancelot Hogben is the 981st most popular biologist (up from 985th in 2019), the 4,719th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,114th in 2019) and the 165th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Lancelot Hogben ranks 981 out of 1,097. Before him are Sydney Parkinson, Miriam Rothschild, Johann Gottfried Zinn, Zinaida Yermolyeva, Dukinfield Henry Scott, and Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw. After him are Anne McLaren, Alister Hardy, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, Heinrich Kuhl, Frederic Moore, and David Prain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Lancelot Hogben ranks 276. Before him are Lawrence Shields, Väinö Ikonen, Blossom Rock, Phyllis Covell, Sidney Blackmer, and Cecil McMaster. After him are Ove Arup, Antoni Słonimski, Malcolm Sargent, Yakima Canutt, Anita Stewart, and Dudley Nichols. Among people deceased in 1975, Lancelot Hogben ranks 239. Before him are Frank Shields, Syed Nazrul Islam, James Robertson Justice, Inga Tidblad, Belle Moore, and Franz Bistricky. After him are Marino Klinger, Andrzej Mostowski, August Dvorak, Beatrix Loughran, Minta Durfee, and Lionel Tertis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lancelot Hogben ranks 4,720 out of 8,785. Before him are Curt Smith (1961), Humphrey Carpenter (1946), Dru Drury (1725), Thomas Brisbane (1773), Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902), and Christian Coulson (1978). After him are Madge Adam (1912), Anne McLaren (1927), Thomas Clarkson (1760), Harry Stafford (1869), Roma Ryan (1950), and Owain Gwynedd (1100).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Lancelot Hogben ranks 165. Before him are Archibald Menzies (1754), Irene Manton (1904), Sydney Parkinson (1745), Miriam Rothschild (1908), Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854), and Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902). After him are Anne McLaren (1927), Alister Hardy (1896), Frederic Moore (1830), David Prain (1857), George Montagu (1751), and John Claudius Loudon (1783).

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