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Thomas C. Jerdon

1811 - 1872

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Thomas Caverhill Jerdon (12 October 1811 – 12 June 1872) was an English physician, zoologist and botanist. He was a pioneering ornithologist who described numerous species of birds in India. Several species of plants (including the genus Jerdonia) and birds including Jerdon's baza, Jerdon's leafbird, Jerdon's bushlark, Jerdon's nightjar, Jerdon's courser, Jerdon's babbler and Jerdon's bush chat are named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas C. Jerdon is the 677th most popular physician (down from 663rd in 2019), the 5,372nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,912th in 2019) and the 67th most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Thomas C. Jerdon ranks 677 out of 726. Before her are Archie Cochrane, Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov, Emily Blackwell, Daniel Cornelius Danielssen, Robert Spitzer, and Angeliki Panagiotatou. After her are Jenő Kamuti, Jean Alexandre Barré, Thomas Starzl, Bennet Omalu, Sara Josephine Baker, and Samuel George Morton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Thomas C. Jerdon ranks 77. Before her are Charles Sumner, Juan Bautista Ceballos, Francisco Javier Zaldúa, George Caleb Bingham, Luis González-Bravo y López de Arjona, and William Bell Scott. After her are William Henry Harvey, John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, John Kilian, John Bright, and Wendell Phillips. Among people deceased in 1872, Thomas C. Jerdon ranks 72. Before her are Richard S. Ewell, Charles Combes, Agustín Morales, Lowell Mason, José Burgos, and Edward James Roye. After her are Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, Thomas Sully, and Robert S. Duncanson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas C. Jerdon ranks 5,374 out of 8,785. Before her are A. Edward Sutherland (1895), Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765), John McEnery (1943), Matthew Carter (1937), Brian Kidd (1949), and Richard Garriott (1961). After her are Jackie Burroughs (1939), Titus Oates (1649), Andy King (1988), William Dunbar (1460), Lynne Frederick (1954), and Sylvia Syms (1934).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Thomas C. Jerdon ranks 67. Before her are Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (1783), Almroth Wright (1861), Thomas Lewis (1881), Ran Laurie (1915), Archie Cochrane (1909), and Emily Blackwell (1826). After her are Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873), William Hewson (1739), Flora Murray (1869), and Vivek Murthy (1977).

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