BIOLOGIST

Abraham Trembley

1710 - 1784

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Abraham Trembley (3 September 1710 – 12 May 1784 Geneva) was a Genevan naturalist. He is best known for being the first to study freshwater polyps or hydra and for being among the first to develop experimental zoology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abraham Trembley has received more than 42,543 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Abraham Trembley is the 343rd most popular biologist (up from 403rd in 2019), the 259th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 297th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Swiss Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Abraham Trembley ranks 343 out of 1,097. Before him are Jacob Christian Schäffer, David Bruce, Carl Sigismund Kunth, Wilder Penfield, Carl Ludwig Blume, and Georg Franz Hoffmann. After him are Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, François-Alphonse Forel, Andrew Fire, Valerius Cordus, Ivan Regen, and Anders Sparrman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1710, Abraham Trembley ranks 15. Before him are Mohammed ben Abdallah, Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, Domenico Alberti, Thomas Arne, Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle, and William Cullen. After him are Paolo Renier, Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen, Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz, Johann II Bernoulli, Carl Alexander Clerck, and Adam Gottlob Moltke. Among people deceased in 1784, Abraham Trembley ranks 11. Before him are Phillis Wheatley, Giovanni Battista Martini, Junípero Serra, Torbern Bergman, Otto Friedrich Müller, and Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia. After him are César-François Cassini de Thury, Anders Johan Lexell, Allan Ramsay, Jean-François Séguier, and Caesar Rodney.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Abraham Trembley ranks 259 out of 1,015. Before him are Marcel Koller (1960), Gustave Moynier (1826), Ferdinand Kübler (1919), R. Norris Williams (1891), Giovanni Giacometti (1868), and Yann Sommer (1988). After him are Ernst Brenner (1856), François-Alphonse Forel (1841), Louis Zutter (1865), Princess Elena of Romania (1950), Giuseppe Motta (1871), and Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Abraham Trembley ranks 13. Before him are Charles Bonnet (1720), Alexander Agassiz (1835), Albert von Kölliker (1817), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Carl Nägeli (1817), and Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884). After him are François-Alphonse Forel (1841), Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810), Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818), Carl Meissner (1800), Johann Bauhin (1541), and Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (1829).

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