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Robert Morison

1620 - 1683

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Robert Morison (1620 – 10 November 1683) was a Scottish botanist and taxonomist. A forerunner of John Ray, he elucidated and developed the first systematic classification of plants. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Morison is the 960th most popular biologist (down from 901st in 2019), the 4,526th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,383rd in 2019) and the 158th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Robert Morison ranks 960 out of 1,097Before him are Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, William Healey Dall, Francis Willughby, Jinzō Matsumura, Gilbert White, and Colin Munro MacLeod. After him are Grigore Antipa, Ivan Lepyokhin, Curt Backeberg, William Diller Matthew, Archibald Menzies, and John Torrey.

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Among people born in 1620, Robert Morison ranks 23Before him are François Bernier, John Evelyn, Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Marguerite Bourgeoys, William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, and Matthew Hopkins.  Among people deceased in 1683, Robert Morison ranks 16Before him are Jacob Stainer, Juraj Križanić, John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, John Owen, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, and Algernon Sidney. After him is Izaak Walton.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Morison ranks 4,527 out of 8,785Before him are James Collins (1983), Thomas Linacre (1460), Margaret Archer (1943), Ian McElhinney (1948), Ivor Allchurch (1929), and Roger Allam (1953). After him are Michael Crawford (1942), Sophie Muller (1962), Alan Clark (1952), Cecil Griffiths (1900), Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1862), and Kingsley Ben-Adir (1986).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Robert Morison ranks 158Before him are George Edwards (1694), Maxwell T. Masters (1833), Mark Catesby (1683), William Yarrell (1784), Francis Willughby (1635), and Gilbert White (1720). After him are Archibald Menzies (1754), Irene Manton (1904), Sydney Parkinson (1745), Miriam Rothschild (1908), Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854), and Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902).