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Spencer Fullerton Baird

1823 - 1887

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Spencer Fullerton Baird (; February 3, 1823 – August 19, 1887) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and museum curator. Baird was the first curator to be named at the Smithsonian Institution. He eventually served as assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian from 1850 to 1878, and as Secretary from 1878 until 1887. He was dedicated to expanding the natural history collections of the Smithsonian which he increased from 6,000 specimens in 1850 to over 2 million by the time of his death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Spencer Fullerton Baird is the 746th most popular biologist (up from 767th in 2019), the 6,372nd most popular biography from United States (up from 7,086th in 2019) and the 101st most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Spencer Fullerton Baird ranks 746 out of 1,097. Before him are Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, Sabin Berthelot, Johann Friedrich Adam, Charles Conrad Abbott, Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, and Miles Joseph Berkeley. After him are Erwin Stresemann, Richard Lewontin, Friedrich Reinitzer, Francis Collins, Ardem Patapoutian, and Heinrich Zollinger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Spencer Fullerton Baird ranks 61. Before him are Jasper Francis Cropsey, Lascăr Catargiu, Ivan Aksakov, Heymann Steinthal, Karl Schenk, and Ahmed Vefik Pasha. After him are Simon Bolivar Buckner, Eduard Oscar Schmidt, Oscar Dickson, Gonçalves Dias, Daniel Harrwitz, and Ernest Reyer. Among people deceased in 1887, Spencer Fullerton Baird ranks 45. Before him are August Friedrich Pott, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, Mikhail Katkov, Emma Lazarus, and Mohamed Sherif Pasha. After him are Sarah Yorke Jackson, John Taylor, Luigi Jacobini, Julius von Haast, August Spies, and E. Marlitt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Spencer Fullerton Baird ranks 6,373 out of 20,380. Before him are Frank Frazetta (1928), Ossie Davis (1917), Alice Coachman (1923), Jim Cummings (1952), J. Lawton Collins (1896), and Ty Dolla Sign (1985). After him are Larry Coryell (1943), Brian G. Hutton (1935), Kevin Dunn (1956), Philip Arthur Fisher (1907), Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann (1933), and Ransom E. Olds (1864).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Spencer Fullerton Baird ranks 101. Before him are Alfred Sturtevant (1891), Alexander Wetmore (1886), Alice Hamilton (1869), Thomas Say (1787), Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856), and Charles Conrad Abbott (1843). After him are Richard Lewontin (1929), Francis Collins (1950), James L. Peters (1889), Garrett Hardin (1915), Robert Ridgway (1850), and Herbert Copeland (1902).

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