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William Jackson Hooker

1785 - 1865

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Sir William Jackson Hooker (6 July 1785 – 12 August 1865) was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botanic garden. At Kew he founded the Herbarium and enlarged the gardens and arboretum. The standard author abbreviation Hook. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Jackson Hooker is the 134th most popular biologist (up from 360th in 2019), the 775th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,910th in 2019) and the 25th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Jackson Hooker ranks 134 out of 1,097. Before him are Hamilton O. Smith, Sam Harris, Reginald Innes Pocock, Sydney Brenner, John Franklin Enders, and Jan Swammerdam. After him are Lynn Margulis, Gaspard Bauhin, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Oliver Smithies, Martin Evans, and Gerald Edelman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, William Jackson Hooker ranks 9. Before him are Jacob Grimm, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Thomas De Quincey, Alessandro Manzoni, Karl Drais, and Lin Zexu. After him are Claude-Louis Navier, Bettina von Arnim, Florestan I, Prince of Monaco, Shah Shujah Durrani, Pierre Louis Dulong, and Jean Charles Athanase Peltier. Among people deceased in 1865, William Jackson Hooker ranks 11. Before him are Leopold I of Belgium, William Rowan Hamilton, Emil Lenz, Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, and Johann Franz Encke. After him are Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia, Robert FitzRoy, Heinrich Barth, Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, and Elizabeth Gaskell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Jackson Hooker ranks 775 out of 8,785. Before him are Benjamin Graham (1894), Gerard Butler (1969), Bernard Lewis (1916), Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), John Barry (1933), and Raymond Cattell (1905). After him are James II of Scotland (1430), Amy Winehouse (1983), Derek Jacobi (1938), Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (1453), Fred Perry (1909), and John Bunyan (1628).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Jackson Hooker ranks 25. Before him are Philip Sclater (1829), Philip Miller (1691), William John Swainson (1789), James Edward Smith (1759), Erasmus Darwin (1731), and Reginald Innes Pocock (1863). After him are Oliver Smithies (1925), Martin Evans (1941), Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), Henry Walter Bates (1825), William Bateson (1861), and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817).

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