The Most Famous
BIOLOGISTS from Chile
This page contains a list of the greatest Chilean Biologists. The pantheon dataset contains 1,097 Biologists, 4 of which were born in Chile. This makes Chile the birth place of the 26th most number of Biologists behind Brazil, and India.
Top 5
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Chilean Biologists of all time. This list of famous Chilean Biologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Hugo Gunckel Lüer (1901 - 1997)
With an HPI of 58.52, Hugo Gunckel Lüer is the most famous Chilean Biologist. His biography has been translated into 41 different languages on wikipedia.
Hugo Gunckel Lüer (August 10, 1901 – July 17, 1997) was a Chilean pharmacist, botanist, and university professor.
2. Francisco Varela (1946 - 2001)
With an HPI of 57.39, Francisco Varela is the 2nd most famous Chilean Biologist. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages.
Francisco Javier Varela García (September 7, 1946 – May 28, 2001) was a Chilean biologist, philosopher, cybernetician, and neuroscientist who, together with his mentor Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology, and for co-founding the Mind and Life Institute to promote dialog between science and Buddhism.
3. Humberto Maturana (1928 - 2021)
With an HPI of 57.34, Humberto Maturana is the 3rd most famous Chilean Biologist. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.
Humberto Maturana Romesín (September 14, 1928 – May 6, 2021) was a Chilean biologist and philosopher. Many consider him a member of a group of second-order cybernetics theoreticians such as Heinz von Foerster, Gordon Pask, Herbert Brün and Ernst von Glasersfeld, but in fact he was a biologist, scientist. Maturana, along with Francisco Varela and Ricardo B. Uribe, was known for creating the term "autopoiesis" about the self-generating, self-maintaining structure in living systems, and concepts such as structural determinism and structural coupling. His work was influential in many fields, mainly the field of systems thinking and cybernetics. Overall, his work is concerned with the biology of cognition. Maturana (2002) insisted that autopoiesis exists only in the molecular domain, and he did not agree with the extension into sociology and other fields: The molecular domain is the only domain of entities that through their interactions give rise to an open ended diversity of entities (with different dynamic architectures) of the same kind in a dynamic that can give rise to an open ended diversity of recursive processes that in their turn give rise to the composition of an open ended diversity of singular dynamic entities.
4. Juan Ignacio Molina (1740 - 1829)
With an HPI of 52.88, Juan Ignacio Molina is the 4th most famous Chilean Biologist. His biography has been translated into 23 different languages.
Fr. Juan Ignacio Molina (Spanish pronunciation: [xwan iɣˈnasjo moˈlina]; (June 24, 1740 – September 12, 1829) was a Chilean-Spanish Jesuit priest, naturalist, historian, translator, geographer, botanist, ornithologist, and linguist. He is usually referred to as Abate Molina (Abbot Molina), and is also sometimes known by the Italian form of his name, Giovanni Ignazio Molina. He was one of the precursors of the theory of the gradual evolution of species, 44 years before Darwin, who repeatedly quoted him in "The Origin of Species". The standard author abbreviation Molina is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
5. Adriana Hoffmann (1940 - 2022)
With an HPI of 43.01, Adriana Hoffmann is the 5th most famous Chilean Biologist. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Adriana Elisabeth Hoffmann Jacoby (29 January 1940 – 20 March 2022) was a Chilean botanist, environmentalist and author. She was executive secretary of Chile's National Environment Commission (Spanish: Comisión Nacional del Medio Ambiente, CONAMA) from 2000 to 2001. She advocated for the sustainable management and protection of Chilean forests, leading opposition to illegal logging in her role as coordinator of Defensores del Bosque Chileno (Defenders of the Chilean Forest) since 1992. Hoffmann authored over a dozen books on the flora of Chile, as well as 106 botanical names, mostly realignments of species and infraspecific taxa of cactus.
People
Pantheon has 5 people classified as Chilean biologists born between 1740 and 1946. Of these 5, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Chilean biologists include Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Francisco Varela, and Humberto Maturana. As of April 2024, 1 new Chilean biologists have been added to Pantheon including Adriana Hoffmann.
Deceased Chilean Biologists
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Hugo Gunckel Lüer
1901 - 1997
HPI: 58.52
Francisco Varela
1946 - 2001
HPI: 57.39
Humberto Maturana
1928 - 2021
HPI: 57.34
Juan Ignacio Molina
1740 - 1829
HPI: 52.88
Adriana Hoffmann
1940 - 2022
HPI: 43.01
Newly Added Chilean Biologists (2024)
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Which Biologists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 4 most globally memorable Biologists since 1700.
