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Thomas Horsfield

1773 - 1859

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Thomas Horsfield (May 12, 1773 – July 24, 1859) was an American physician and naturalist who worked extensively in Indonesia, describing numerous species of plants and animals from the region. He was later a curator of the East India Company Museum in London. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Horsfield is the 359th most popular physician (up from 541st in 2019), the 3,570th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,923rd in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Thomas Horsfield ranks 359 out of 726. Before him are William Cullen, Nikolai Korotkov, Alfonso López Trujillo, Johann von Staupitz, Robert Remak, and Carl Lange. After him are Robert Darwin, Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Petrus Camper, Claus Schilling, Stamen Grigorov, and Priscilla Chan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1773, Thomas Horsfield ranks 26. Before him are Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Hussein Dey, Étienne Maurice Gérard, and Robert Surcouf. After him are Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, Ioannis Kolettis, Arthur Aikin, Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Josef Jungmann, and Henrik Steffens. Among people deceased in 1859, Thomas Horsfield ranks 38. Before him are Alfred Vail, Zygmunt Krasiński, Karl Baedeker, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, William Cranch Bond, and Sergey Aksakov. After him are Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Princess Anna of Saxony, William H. Prescott, Joseph Ludwig Raabe, and Horace Mann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas Horsfield ranks 3,570 out of 20,380. Before him are Eben Alexander (1953), Sean Young (1959), Stephen Stills (1945), DeForest Kelley (1920), John O'Connor (1920), and Barry Goldwater (1909). After him are Joseph Valachi (1904), William Atherton (1947), Kate Chopin (1850), Gardner Fox (1911), Leonard Kleinrock (1934), and Jason Newsted (1963).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Thomas Horsfield ranks 44. Before him are Gregg L. Semenza (1956), Henry Heimlich (1920), Mehmet Oz (1960), Fernando J. Corbató (1926), Horace Wells (1815), and James Curtis Hepburn (1815). After him are Priscilla Chan (1985), Philip Showalter Hench (1896), Jack Kevorkian (1928), Walter Jackson Freeman II (1895), William Bates (1860), and Andrew Taylor Still (1828).

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