BIOLOGIST

Marie Stopes

1880 - 1958

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Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (15 October 1880 – 2 October 1958) was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant palaeontology and coal classification, and was the first female academic on the faculty of the University of Manchester. With her second husband, Humphrey Verdon Roe, Stopes founded the first birth control clinic in Britain, which bore her name for much of its 100 year history. Stopes edited the newsletter Birth Control News, which gave explicit practical advice. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marie Stopes is the 464th most popular biologist (down from 403rd in 2019), the 2,354th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,136th in 2019) and the 74th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Marie Stopes ranks 464 out of 1,097. Before her are Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, Francis Darwin, Anna Russell, Peter Artedi, Alexander Kovalevsky, and Luther Burbank. After her are Alain Bombard, William T. Stearn, Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, Richard Lydekker, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, and Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied.

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Among people born in 1880, Marie Stopes ranks 105. Before her are Walter Hohmann, Gabriel Voisin, Sholem Asch, Leonard Woolf, Philibert Jacques Melotte, and Princess Thyra of Denmark. After her are Mihail Sadoveanu, Jeannette Rankin, Samuel Jones, Louis Charles Breguet, Fritz Bleyl, and Arnold Gesell. Among people deceased in 1958, Marie Stopes ranks 84. Before her are Maurice Germot, Roger Byrne, Salama Moussa, László Hudec, Robert Donat, and Alexandre Tuffère. After her are Varvara Stepanova, Stuart Lewis-Evans, Aleksander Klumberg, Ivan Yefimovich Petrov, Francisco Olazar, and David Jack.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Marie Stopes ranks 2,354 out of 8,785. Before her are David Stirling (1915), John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey (1885), John Hughes (1814), Millicent Fawcett (1847), Ken Tyrrell (1924), and Paul W. S. Anderson (1965). After her are Tim Rice (1944), Glen Johnson (1984), Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743), Stephen Rea (1946), Francis Rossi (1949), and John Evelyn (1620).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Marie Stopes ranks 74. Before her are Roderick Murchison (1792), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), John Stevens Henslow (1796), Alexander Wilson (1766), Francis Darwin (1848), and Anna Russell (1807). After her are William T. Stearn (1911), Richard Lydekker (1849), John Hughlings Jackson (1835), William Hudson (1730), Alec Jeffreys (1950), and Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield (1950).

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