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Thomas Say

1787 - 1834

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Thomas Say (June 27, 1787 – October 10, 1834) was an American entomologist, conchologist, and herpetologist. His studies of insects and shells, numerous contributions to scientific journals, and scientific expeditions to Florida, Georgia, the Rocky Mountains, Mexico, and elsewhere made him an internationally known naturalist. Say has been called the father of American descriptive entomology and American conchology. He served as librarian for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, curator at the American Philosophical Society (elected in 1817), and professor of natural history at the University of Pennsylvania. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Say is the 727th most popular biologist (up from 900th in 2019), the 6,208th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,639th in 2019) and the 98th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Thomas Say ranks 727 out of 1,097. Before him are Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper, William Henry Hudson, Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz, Johan August Wahlberg, Marie-Anne Libert, and Ernst Stromer. After him are Carl Skottsberg, Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt, Amalie Dietrich, Richard Anthony Salisbury, Thomas Bell, and William Roxburgh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Thomas Say ranks 40. Before him are Pellegrino Rossi, John Richardson, Ninomiya Sontoku, José María Bocanegra, Joaquín Mosquera, and Michele Carafa. After him are Konstantin Batyushkov, Manuel Dorrego, Sven Nilsson, Pedro Vélez, Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine, and Johann Natterer. Among people deceased in 1834, Thomas Say ranks 39. Before him are Filip Višnjić, Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, Joseph Bové, Infanta Maria da Assunção of Braganza, Thomas Telford, and Gamzat-bek. After him are George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, Alexius Frederick Christian, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, Pierre Adet, William H. Crawford, John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, and Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas Say ranks 6,209 out of 20,380. Before him are Steven Williams (1949), Son House (1902), Joan Mitchell (1925), Theodore Roszak (1933), John Mulcahy (1876), and Shelley Long (1949). After him are Abbey Lincoln (1930), Road Dogg (1969), Paul Chambers (1935), John Agar (1921), Janet Jagan (1920), and Edmund Gettier (1927).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Thomas Say ranks 98. Before him are Walter Sutton (1877), Albert Charles Smith (1906), Alfred Romer (1894), Alfred Sturtevant (1891), Alexander Wetmore (1886), and Alice Hamilton (1869). After him are Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856), Charles Conrad Abbott (1843), Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823), Richard Lewontin (1929), Francis Collins (1950), and James L. Peters (1889).

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