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Robert Wight

1796 - 1872

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Robert Wight (6 July 1796 – 26 May 1872) was a Scottish surgeon in the East India Company, whose professional career was spent entirely in southern India, where his greatest achievements were in botany – as an economic botanist and leading taxonomist in south India. He contributed to the introduction of American cotton. As a taxonomist he described 110 new genera and 1267 new species of flowering plants. He employed Indian botanical artists to illustrate many plants collected by himself and Indian collectors he trained. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Wight is the 915th most popular biologist (up from 934th in 2019), the 4,170th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,617th in 2019) and the 147th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Robert Wight ranks 915 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl H. Eigenmann, Stanley Norman Cohen, Jenny Clack, Edward Newton, Janet Rowley, and François Gagnepain. After him are G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Joshua Brookes, Jan Sztolcman, Edward Bagnall Poulton, Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov, and Thomas Thomson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Robert Wight ranks 60. Before him are Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont, John M. Clayton, Frederick William Beechey, Phan Thanh Giản, Joseph Meyer, and Francis Crozier. After him are Andreas von Ettingshausen, Karl Leberecht Immermann, John Torrey, George Back, Henry De la Beche, and John Bell. Among people deceased in 1872, Robert Wight ranks 65. Before him are Benjamin Briggs, Nikolaos Mantzaros, Bedros Tourian, Frederik Kaiser, John Frederick Kensett, and Nikolay Milyutin. After him are Richard S. Ewell, Charles Combes, Agustín Morales, Lowell Mason, José Burgos, and Edward James Roye.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Wight ranks 4,171 out of 8,785. Before him are Joe Jackson (1954), Geraldine Beamish (1883), Julian Bailey (1961), David Lloyd (1950), Sid Kimpton (1887), and Julian Richings (1955). After him are G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903), Craig Armstrong (1959), Wilko Johnson (1947), Muriel Freeman (1897), Marmaduke Pickthall (1875), and A. E. Housman (1859).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Robert Wight ranks 147. Before him are Marmaduke Tunstall (1743), Louis Fraser (1810), Joseph Barcroft (1872), Keith Campbell (1954), Jenny Clack (1947), and Edward Newton (1832). After him are G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903), Edward Bagnall Poulton (1856), Thomas Thomson (1817), Thomas Pennant (1726), George Edwards (1694), and Maxwell T. Masters (1833).

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