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Norman I. Platnick

1951 - 2020

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Norman Ira Platnick (December 30, 1951 – April 8, 2020) was an American biological systematist and arachnologist. At the time of his death, he was a professor emeritus of the Richard Gilder Graduate School and Peter J. Solomon Family Curator Emeritus of the invertebrate zoology department of the American Museum of Natural History. A 1973 Ph.D. recipient at Harvard University, Platnick described over 1,800 species of spiders from around the world, making him the second most prolific spider taxonomist in history, behind only Eugène Simon. Until 2014 he was also the maintainer of the World Spider Catalog, a website formerly hosted by the AMNH which tracks the arachnology literature, and attempts to maintain a comprehensive list, sorted taxonomically, of every species of spider which has been formally described. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Norman I. Platnick is the 936th most popular biologist (up from 1,021st in 2019), the 8,516th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,657th in 2019) and the 134th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Norman I. Platnick ranks 936 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Christoph Wendland, Pierre Chambon, William Murrill, Joanne Chory, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen, and Johann Wilhelm Meigen. After him are Philipp Christoph Zeller, Alice Catherine Evans, George Edwards, Shi Zhengli, Walter Buller, and Maxine Singer.

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Among people born in 1951, Norman I. Platnick ranks 448. Before him are Hans-Georg Aschenbach, Helen Shaver, Luc Millecamps, Sergey Tereshchenko, Ed Royce, and León Gieco. After him are Don Quarrie, Pyotr Mamonov, François Bracci, Barbara Morgan, Mustafa A. G. Abushagur, and Bill Frisell. Among people deceased in 2020, Norman I. Platnick ranks 545. Before him are Giorgi Shengelaia, Tim Severin, Cabeção, Willi Holdorf, Aleksandr Aksinin, and Fritz d'Orey. After him are Ali Bozer, Alison Lurie, Nelly Kaplan, Pedro Pablo León, William Yorzyk, and Rodolfo Fischer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Norman I. Platnick ranks 8,518 out of 20,380. Before him are Iris Marion Young (1949), Ray Barbuti (1905), Rose O'Neill (1874), Charles R. Knight (1874), Michaela Conlin (1978), and Buddy Hackett (1924). After him are Patti Davis (1952), Blind Willie Johnson (1897), Jerry Hardin (1929), Haley Lu Richardson (1995), Eve Ensler (1953), and Byron Haskin (1899).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Norman I. Platnick ranks 134. Before him are Joseph Banks Rhine (1895), Stanley Norman Cohen (1935), Janet Rowley (1925), Barry Commoner (1917), Mary Katharine Brandegee (1844), and Joanne Chory (1955). After him are Alice Catherine Evans (1881), Maxine Singer (1931), Outram Bangs (1863), Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890), William Beebe (1877), and Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858).

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