The Most Famous
BIOLOGISTS from Réunion
This page contains a list of the greatest Biologists. The pantheon dataset contains 841 Biologists, 1 of which were born in Réunion. This makes Réunion the birth place of the 50th most number of Biologists behind Belarus and Egypt.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Biologists of all time. This list of famous Biologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Edmond Albius (1829 - 1880)
With an HPI of 49.87, Edmond Albius is the most famous Biologist. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Edmond Albius (c. 1829 – 9 August 1880) was a horticulturalist from Réunion. Born into slavery, Albius became an important figure in the cultivation of vanilla. At the age of 12, he invented a technique for pollinating vanilla orchids quickly and profitably. Albius's technique revolutionized the cultivation of vanilla and made it possible to profitably grow Vanilla planifolia away from its native habitat (Mexico to Brazil).
Pantheon has 1 people classified as biologists born between 1829 and 1829. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased biologists include Edmond Albius.
