BIOLOGIST

Philip Sclater

1829 - 1913

Photo of Philip Sclater

Icon of person Philip Sclater

Philip Lutley Sclater (4 November 1829 – 27 June 1913) was an English lawyer and zoologist. In zoology, he was an expert ornithologist, and identified the main zoogeographic regions of the world. He was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London for 42 years, from 1860 to 1902. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Philip Sclater is the 94th most popular biologist (down from 92nd in 2019), the 604th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 606th in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Biologist.

Philip Sclater was a British zoologist and ornithologist who is most famous for his work on the distribution of animals.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Philip Sclater by language

Loading...

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Philip Sclater ranks 94 out of 1,097. Before him are Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Katherine Oppenheimer, Clair Cameron Patterson, Alfred Hershey, Ernst Mayr, and Charles Lucien Bonaparte. After him are Aaron Ciechanover, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Pierre André Latreille, Nikolai Vavilov, Erwin Neher, and Jan Evangelista Purkyně.

Most Popular Biologists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Philip Sclater ranks 10. Before him are Geronimo, Anton Rubinstein, Levi Strauss, Chester A. Arthur, Asaph Hall, and John Everett Millais. After him are Theodor Billroth, Alfred Brehm, N. R. Pogson, Adolf Eugen Fick, Anselm Feuerbach, and Elizabeth Siddal. Among people deceased in 1913, Philip Sclater ranks 15. Before him are Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Lesya Ukrainka, Blanche Monnier, Alfred von Schlieffen, August Bebel, and Sophia of Nassau. After him are Josephine Cochrane, Francisco I. Madero, Ármin Vámbéry, Lewis A. Swift, Reginald Lee, and Alfred Redl.

Others Born in 1829

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1913

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Philip Sclater ranks 604 out of 8,785. Before him are David Lean (1908), Thomas Carlyle (1795), William Oughtred (1574), Tim Curry (1946), Charles Dance (1946), and Ronald Coase (1910). After him are John E. Walker (1941), John Collier (1850), Andrew Huxley (1917), Peter Gabriel (1950), Jonathan Pryce (1947), and David II of Scotland (1324).

Others born in United Kingdom

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Philip Sclater ranks 19. Before him are Richard Henderson (1945), Gregory Winter (1951), George Shaw (1751), Michael Houghton (1949), Richard Owen (1804), and Archibald Hill (1886). After him are Philip Miller (1691), William John Swainson (1789), James Edward Smith (1759), Erasmus Darwin (1731), Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), and William Jackson Hooker (1785).

British born Biologists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous