The Most Famous
BIOLOGISTS from Peru
This page contains a list of the greatest Peruvian Biologists. The pantheon dataset contains 1,097 Biologists, 1 of which were born in Peru. This makes Peru the birth place of the 48th most number of Biologists behind Slovenia, and Serbia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Peruvian Biologists of all time. This list of famous Peruvian Biologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Juliane Koepcke (b. 1954)
With an HPI of 59.79, Juliane Koepcke is the most famous Peruvian Biologist. Her biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.
Juliane Margaret Beate Koepcke (born 10 October 1954), is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats. The daughter of German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, lightning struck the 1971 LANSA Flight 508 where she became the sole survivor of the crash. She fell 3,000 m (10,000 ft) while strapped to her seat and suffered numerous injuries. She survived 11 days alone in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest until she rescued herself after finding a local lumberjack camp.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Peruvian biologists born between 1954 and 1954. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Peruvian biologists include Juliane Koepcke.
