BIOLOGIST

Robert Fortune

1812 - 1880

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Robert Fortune (16 September 1812 – 13 April 1880) was a Scottish botanist, plant hunter and traveller, best known for introducing around 250 new ornamental plants, mainly from China, but also Japan, into the gardens of Britain, Australia, and North America. He also played a role in the development of the tea industry in India in the 19th century. He also imported Japanese chestnuts into the United States, which led to the introduction of chestnut blight to the country 24 years after his death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Fortune is the 541st most popular biologist (down from 387th in 2019), the 2,628th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,086th in 2019) and the 84th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Robert Fortune ranks 541 out of 1,097. Before him are Ernst Schäfer, Matthias de l'Obel, Camille Guérin, Edward Daniel Clarke, Rupert Sheldrake, and Kliment Timiryazev. After him are Johann Jakob Bernhardi, Eugen Fischer, Johann Friedrich Klotzsch, João de Loureiro, Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau, and Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Robert Fortune ranks 45. Before him are George Allman, William Fox, Knud Knudsen, Ignacio Comonfort, Samuel Smiles, and Carl Christian Hall. After him are Walthère Frère-Orban, Francisco Coll Guitart, Alexander H. Stephens, Charles Duclerc, Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ, and Nikolay Zinin. Among people deceased in 1880, Robert Fortune ranks 36. Before him are Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, Friedrich Bayer, Lucretia Mott, Napoléon Henri Reber, Alphonse Pénaud, and Sunanda Kumariratana. After him are Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Benjamin Peirce, Edmond Albius, Arthur Morin, and Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Fortune ranks 2,629 out of 8,785. Before him are John Foxe (1516), Patricia Quinn (1944), Janet McTeer (1961), Perry Anderson (1938), William Wilson (1844), and Edward Arthur Milne (1896). After him are Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (1182), Peter Sinfield (1943), Emma Corrin (1995), Henry Watson Fowler (1858), James Blunt (1974), and Lord Leopold Mountbatten (1889).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Robert Fortune ranks 84. Before him are William Hudson (1730), Alec Jeffreys (1950), Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield (1950), William Curtis (1746), Edward Daniel Clarke (1769), and Rupert Sheldrake (1942). After him are Sarah Gilbert (1962), John Gilbert Baker (1834), Frederick DuCane Godman (1834), Philip Henry Gosse (1810), William Speirs Bruce (1867), and Charles Walter De Vis (1829).

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