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Philip Miller

1691 - 1771

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Philip Miller FRS (1691 – 18 December 1771) was an English botanist and gardener of Scottish descent. Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden for nearly 50 years from 1722, and wrote the highly popular The Gardeners Dictionary. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Philip Miller is the 105th most popular biologist (down from 79th in 2019), the 680th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 558th in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Biologist.

Philip Miller is most famous for his work on the classification of plants. He was a founding member of the Royal Society and was a professor at Oxford University.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Philip Miller ranks 105 out of 1,097. Before him are Erwin Neher, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Janaki Ammal, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, and Georges J. F. Köhler. After him are Jean-Henri Fabre, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, Stanley B. Prusiner, and Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1691, Philip Miller ranks 2. Before him is Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After him are Giovanni Paolo Panini, Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia, Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Edward Cave, Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz, Mir Jafar, Francesco Feo, Wilhelm Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Alessandro Galilei, and George Lillo. Among people deceased in 1771, Philip Miller ranks 3. Before him are Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, and Claude Adrien Helvétius. After him are Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Louis-Michel van Loo, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Henri Pitot, John Bevis, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, František Brixi, Thomas Gray, and Tobias Smollett.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Philip Miller ranks 680 out of 8,785. Before him are Hugh Laurie (1959), Diana Rigg (1938), Robert Burton (1577), David Hockney (1937), Peter D. Mitchell (1920), and Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767). After him are Augustus Pugin (1812), William Dampier (1651), Geoffrey of Monmouth (1090), Roger Glover (1945), Æthelflæd (869), and Thomas Fairfax (1612).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Philip Miller ranks 20. Before him are Gregory Winter (1951), George Shaw (1751), Michael Houghton (1949), Richard Owen (1804), Archibald Hill (1886), and Philip Sclater (1829). After him are William John Swainson (1789), James Edward Smith (1759), Erasmus Darwin (1731), Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), William Jackson Hooker (1785), and Oliver Smithies (1925).

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