BIOLOGIST

Thomas Nuttall

1786 - 1859

Thomas Nuttall

Thomas Nuttall (5 January 1786 – 10 September 1859) was an English botanist and zoologist who lived and worked in America from 1808 until 1841. Nuttall was born in the village of Long Preston, near Settle in the West Riding of Yorkshire and spent some years as an apprentice printer in England. Soon after going to the United States he met professor Benjamin Smith Barton in Philadelphia. Barton encouraged his strong interest in natural history. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Nuttall is the 714th most popular biologist (up from 905th in 2019), the 3,284th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,419th in 2019) and the 105th most popular British Biologist.

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Among biologists, Thomas Nuttall ranks 714 out of 1,097. Before him are Anthony R. Hunter, Jean de Thévenot, Franz Xaver Fieber, Alexander Wetmore, Johannes Burman, and James Sowerby. After him are Alessandra Giliani, Alice Hamilton, Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, Paul Bert, Gaetano Savi, and John Anderson.

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Anthony R. Hunter
1943 - Present
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 708
Jean de Thévenot
1633 - 1667
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 709
Franz Xaver Fieber
1807 - 1872
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 710
Alexander Wetmore
1886 - 1978
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 711
Johannes Burman
1707 - 1779
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 712
James Sowerby
1757 - 1822
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 713
Thomas Nuttall
1786 - 1859
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 714
Alessandra Giliani
1307 - 1326
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 715
Alice Hamilton
1869 - 1970
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 716
Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc
1759 - 1828
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 717
Paul Bert
1833 - 1886
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 718
Gaetano Savi
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HPI: 57.57
Rank: 719
John Anderson
1833 - 1900
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 720

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Thomas Nuttall ranks 48. Before him are Sunthorn Phu, Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov, Moshoeshoe I, Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Pavel Schilling, and Louis Vicat. After him are Andreas Metaxas, Gregor MacGregor, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, Auguste de Montferrand, Wilhelm Gesenius, and José Joaquín Prieto. Among people deceased in 1859, Thomas Nuttall ranks 47. Before him are Princess Anna of Saxony, William H. Prescott, Joseph Ludwig Raabe, Horace Mann, Stefan Bogoridi, and José de Madrazo y Agudo. After him are Eliza Acton, Ye Mingchen, Petrus Borel, Heinrich Zollinger, John Walker, and Prince William of Baden.

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Sunthorn Phu
WRITER
1786 - 1855
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 42
Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov
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1786 - 1862
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 43
Moshoeshoe I
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1786 - 1870
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 44
Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
NOBLEMAN
1786 - 1816
HPI: 58.10
Rank: 45
Pavel Schilling
POLITICIAN
1786 - 1837
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 46
Louis Vicat
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1786 - 1861
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 47
Thomas Nuttall
BIOLOGIST
1786 - 1859
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 48
Andreas Metaxas
POLITICIAN
1786 - 1860
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 49
Gregor MacGregor
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1786 - 1845
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 50
Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar
PHYSICIAN
1786 - 1845
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 51
Auguste de Montferrand
ARCHITECT
1786 - 1858
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 52
Wilhelm Gesenius
PHILOSOPHER
1786 - 1842
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 53
José Joaquín Prieto
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1786 - 1854
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 54