BIOLOGIST

William Townsend Aiton

1766 - 1849

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William Townsend Aiton (2 February 1766 – 9 October 1849) was an English botanist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Townsend Aiton is the 888th most popular biologist (down from 798th in 2019), the 4,019th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,902nd in 2019) and the 139th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Townsend Aiton ranks 888 out of 1,097Before him are Henry Baker, Flossie Wong-Staal, Charles Tate Regan, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Thomas Andrew Knight, and Jakob Emanuel Lange. After him are Tokiharu Abe, Peter Ascanius, Johann August Ephraim Goeze, Paul Henri Lecomte, Frederic Clements, and Hugh Edwin Strickland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, William Townsend Aiton ranks 34Before him are Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, John Leslie, Samuel Wilson, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg, and Jacob Perkins. After him are Benjamin Smith Barton, Isaac D'Israeli, and Aaron Alexandre. Among people deceased in 1849, William Townsend Aiton ranks 59Before him are Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch, Jacob Perkins, Albert Gallatin, Filippo Paulucci, Mariano Paredes, and Ján Hollý. After him are José María Carreño, Francisco Ramón Vicuña, Edward Hicks, George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, and Charlotte von Ahlefeld.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Townsend Aiton ranks 4,020 out of 8,785Before him are Linda Grant (1951), Michael Rennie (1909), Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), Alan Woods (1944), Charlie Whiting (1952), and Tony Benn (1925). After him are Ian McNeice (1950), Peter Scott (1909), G. M. Trevelyan (1876), Joseph Bazalgette (1819), Edward John Eyre (1815), and Robert H. McNaught (1956).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Townsend Aiton ranks 139Before him are Charles Wyville Thomson (1830), Ann Bishop (1899), William Hemsley (1843), Henry Baker (1698), Charles Tate Regan (1878), and Thomas Andrew Knight (1759). After him are Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811), Marmaduke Tunstall (1743), Louis Fraser (1810), Joseph Barcroft (1872), Keith Campbell (1954), and Jenny Clack (1947).