BIOLOGIST

Achille Valenciennes

1794 - 1865

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Achille Valenciennes (9 August 1794 – 13 April 1865) was a French zoologist. Valenciennes was born in Paris, and studied under Georges Cuvier. His study of parasitic worms in humans made an important contribution to the study of parasitology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Achille Valenciennes has received more than 93,735 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Achille Valenciennes is the 505th most popular biologist (down from 480th in 2019), the 3,594th most popular biography from France (down from 3,454th in 2019) and the 67th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Achille Valenciennes ranks 505 out of 1,097. Before him are Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, Francis Collins, Edward Blyth, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, Adolf Mayer, and Aaron Aaronsohn. After him are Sébastien Vaillant, Edwin Klebs, Carl Jakob Sundevall, Theodore Gill, Christian von Steven, and John Murray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Achille Valenciennes ranks 42. Before him are Alexander Gordon Laing, Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, Joseph Lebeau, Heinz Christian Pander, Wei Yuan, and Henriette d'Angeville. After him are Robert Liston, Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Antoine Bussy, and Gabriel Antonio Pereira. Among people deceased in 1865, Achille Valenciennes ranks 53. Before him are Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine, Alexander Dukhnovych, Richard Cobden, Joseph Lebeau, Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, and Antonios Kriezis. After him are Philippe Buchez, Mary Surratt, Stephen Allen Benson, Léon Jean Marie Dufour, Otto Ludwig, and Kitsos Tzavelas.

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In France

Among people born in France, Achille Valenciennes ranks 3,594 out of 6,770. Before him are Gaston Gallimard (1881), Gérard Collomb (1947), Jacques Herbrand (1908), Andréa Parisy (1935), Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940), and François de Tournon (1489). After him are Micheline Bernardini (1927), Lucien Simon (1861), Henri Callot (1875), Maurice Tourneur (1876), Jean Robic (1921), and Joseph Duplessis (1725).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Achille Valenciennes ranks 67. Before him are Camille Guérin (1872), Henri Ernest Baillon (1827), Matthias de l'Obel (1538), Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776), Jules Émile Planchon (1823), and Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem (1839). After him are Sébastien Vaillant (1669), Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746), Paul Gervais (1816), Eugène Simon (1848), Marie Jules César Savigny (1777), and Paul Bert (1833).

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