Albert Günther
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1830-10-03
- Died
- 1914-02-01
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Catalogue of Physostomi, Containing the Families Salmonide, Percopside, Galaxide, Mormyride, Gymnarchide, Esocide, Umbride, Scombresocide, Cyprinodont
- Catalogue of the Acanthopterygian Fishes in the Collection of the British Museum -
- Guide to the Galleries of Reptiles and Fishes in the Department of Zoology of the British Museum (Natural History)
- Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 64,958x
- G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences
· 2007 · cited 53,033x
- Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.
· 1977 · cited 49,767x
- Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: Tests for correlation and regression analyses
· 2009 · cited 30,156x
- Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks
· 1999 · cited 27,761x
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Key facts
- Born
- Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther , 3 October 1830, Esslingen , Germany
- Died
- 1 February 1914 (1914-02-01) (aged 83), Kew Gardens , Richmond-on-Thames, England
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Education
- University of Tübingen
- Known for
- Description of more than 340 reptile species, Catalogue of Fishes
- Awards
- Linnean Medal (1904)
- Fields
- Zoologist
- Institutions
- British Museum
- Author abbrev zoology
- Günther
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 3 October 1830
- Died
- 1 February 1914
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gotthilf
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Esslingen am Neckar
- Place of death
- London
- Child
- Robert Gunther
- Educated at
- University of Tübingen
- Employer
- British Museum
- Languages spoken
Article
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3 October 1830 – 1 February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second-most productive reptile taxonomist (after George Albert Boulenger) with more than 340 reptile species described and the third-most productive fish taxonomist with about 1600 fish species described.
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1830 births1914 deaths19th-century British zoologists19th-century German zoologists20th-century British zoologistsBritish curatorsBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish herpetologistsBritish ichthyologistsBritish taxonomistsCorresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of SciencesEmployees of the Natural History Museum, London