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Richard Owen

1804 - 1892

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Sir Richard Owen (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils. Owen produced a vast array of scientific work, but is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria (meaning "Terrible Reptile" or "Fearfully Great Reptile"). An outspoken critic of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, Owen agreed with Darwin that evolution occurred but thought it was more complex than outlined in Darwin's On the Origin of Species.[page range too broad] Owen's approach to evolution can be considered to have anticipated the issues that have gained greater attention with the recent emergence of evolutionary developmental biology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Owen is the 78th most popular biologist (down from 47th in 2019), the 522nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 399th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Biologist.

Richard Owen was a British biologist and comparative anatomist who founded the Natural History Museum in London.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Richard Owen ranks 78 out of 1,097. Before him are Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Elizabeth Blackburn, Georg Forster, Alexander Oparin, Michael Houghton, and Max Theiler. After him are Ralph M. Steinman, Archibald Hill, René Lesson, Werner Arber, Jules A. Hoffmann, and Matthias Jakob Schleiden.

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Among people born in 1804, Richard Owen ranks 15. Before him are Emil Lenz, Allan Kardec, Marie Taglioni, Mongkut, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi. After him are Matthias Jakob Schleiden, John Deere, Eugène Sue, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, and Johan Ludvig Runeberg. Among people deceased in 1892, Richard Owen ranks 9. Before him are Walt Whitman, Werner von Siemens, Ernest Renan, John Couch Adams, Alexander Mackenzie, and Édouard Lalo. After him are Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, Rudolf von Jhering, Annibale de Gasparis, Louis Vuitton, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, and Deodoro da Fonseca.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Owen ranks 522 out of 8,785. Before him are Christopher Hogwood (1941), John Michell (1724), Colin Firth (1960), Alan Parker (1944), Frederick Forsyth (1938), and Richard Hughes (1975). After him are John Donne (1572), Thomas Gainsborough (1727), Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (1984), Kenny Baker (1934), Ian Holm (1931), and Theresa May (1956).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Richard Owen ranks 17. Before him are John Edward Gray (1800), Christian de Duve (1917), Richard Henderson (1945), Gregory Winter (1951), George Shaw (1751), and Michael Houghton (1949). After him are Archibald Hill (1886), Philip Sclater (1829), Philip Miller (1691), William John Swainson (1789), James Edward Smith (1759), and Erasmus Darwin (1731).

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