BIOLOGIST

Louisa Bolus

1877 - 1970

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Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus née Kensit (31 July 1877 in Burgersdorp – 5 April 1970 in Cape Town) was a South African botanist and taxonomist, and the longtime curator of the Bolus Herbarium, from 1903. Bolus also has the legacy of authoring more land plant species than any other female scientist, in total naming 1,494 species. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louisa Bolus is the 516th most popular biologist (up from 778th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from South Africa (up from 117th in 2019) and the 5th most popular South African Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Louisa Bolus ranks 516 out of 1,097Before her are Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Johann Jakob Heckel, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, Aaron Aaronsohn, and Alec Jeffreys. After her are François Marie Daudin, Johan Andreas Murray, Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Charles Chamberland, and Kaspar Maria von Sternberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Louisa Bolus ranks 89Before her are Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Joanni Perronet, Otto Herschmann, Maximilian Voloshin, Wehib Pasha, and Viktor Dyk. After her are Erich von Hornbostel, Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow, Josephine Hull, Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia, Luke Voyno-Yasenetsky, and Titta Ruffo. Among people deceased in 1970, Louisa Bolus ranks 135Before her are Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Fernand Crommelynck, Peter Doi, Ștefan Barbu, Robert Gerhard, and Jacques Pills. After her are Aimo Lahti, Henri Queuille, Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow, Heino Eller, Alla Horska, and A. H. M. Jones.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Louisa Bolus ranks 72 out of 454Before her are Laurence Oliphant (1829), Eugène Terre'Blanche (1941), Dave Matthews (1967), Zindzi Mandela (1960), Christiaan de Wet (1854), and Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907). After her are Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Cyril Cusack (1910), Ronald Harwood (1934), Oliver Tambo (1917), Piet Joubert (1834), and Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819).

Among BIOLOGISTS In South Africa

Among biologists born in South Africa, Louisa Bolus ranks 5Before her are Max Theiler (1899), Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761), Sydney Brenner (1927), and Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907). After her are Austin Stevens (1950).