BIOLOGIST

Luther Burbank

1849 - 1926

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Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849 – April 11, 1926) was an American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank primarily worked with fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables. He developed (but did not create) a spineless cactus (useful for cattle-feed) and the plumcot. Burbank's most successful strains and varieties included the Shasta daisy, the fire poppy (note possible confusion with the California wildflower, Papaver californicum, which is also called a "fire poppy"), the "July Elberta" peach, the "Santa Rosa" plum, the "Flaming Gold" nectarine, the "Wickson" plum (named after the agronomist Edward J. Wickson), the freestone peach, and the white blackberry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Luther Burbank is the 463rd most popular biologist (down from 445th in 2019), the 4,057th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,031st in 2019) and the 78th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Luther Burbank ranks 463 out of 1,097. Before him are Antoine de Jussieu, Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, Francis Darwin, Anna Russell, Peter Artedi, and Alexander Kovalevsky. After him are Marie Stopes, Alain Bombard, William T. Stearn, Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, Richard Lydekker, and Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Luther Burbank ranks 54. Before him are Johan August Brinell, Oscar Hertwig, Alexander von Krobatin, Károly Khuen-Héderváry, Benjamin Godard, and Nikolai Nebogatov. After him are Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Richard Lydekker, Fritz Mauthner, Agenor Maria Gołuchowski, Jean Richepin, and Emile Claus. Among people deceased in 1926, Luther Burbank ranks 58. Before him are Annie Oakley, Bertha Wegmann, Ye Wanyong, Katō Takaaki, Enrico Toselli, and Lars Magnus Ericsson. After him are William Larned, Joan Alcover, Carlos Schwabe, Josias von Heeringen, Jean Richepin, and Juan Benlloch i Vivó.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Luther Burbank ranks 4,057 out of 20,380. Before him are Dan Castellaneta (1957), Ada Blackjack (1898), David Graeber (1961), Frank McCourt (1930), Sam Giancana (1908), and Mira Sorvino (1967). After him are Morgan Taylor (1903), Colleen Hoover (1979), Desmond Child (1953), Maclyn McCarty (1911), Mabel Normand (1892), and John McCook (1944).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Luther Burbank ranks 78. Before him are Martha Chase (1927), James P. Allison (1948), Asa Gray (1810), Arthur Cronquist (1919), Robert Weinberg (1942), and Robert Gallo (1937). After him are Sewall Wright (1889), Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey (1863), Robert Sapolsky (1957), Wilder Penfield (1891), David Starr Jordan (1851), and George Newbold Lawrence (1806).

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