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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 87,726 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Achille Valenciennes is the 481st most popular biologist (up from 526th in 2019), the 3,468th most popular biography from France (down from 3,340th in 2019) and the 70th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Achille Valenciennes ranks 481 out of 841Before him are Garrett Hardin, Petter Adolf Karsten, Bertha Lutz, René Dubos, Sébastien Vaillant, and George Clifford III. After him are Jean Cabanis, Aaron Aaronsohn, Edmond Albius, Pieter Bleeker, Reginald Punnett, and Martin Rathke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Achille Valenciennes ranks 40Before him are Princess Amalie of Saxony, Edward Robinson, Alexander Gordon Laing, Jeanne Villepreux-Power, Carl Borivoj Presl, and Leopold Zunz. After him are Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen, John Biscoe, Carl Joseph Begas, and Achille Richard. Among people deceased in 1865, Achille Valenciennes ranks 50Before him are James Barry, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Joseph Lebeau, Mary Surratt, Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, and William Jackson Hooker. After him are Otto Ludwig, Nicholas Wiseman, Antonios Kriezis, Lewis Powell, Kitsos Tzavelas, and Richard Cobden.

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In France

Among people born in France, Achille Valenciennes ranks 3,468 out of 6,011Before him are René Dubos (1901), Roger Carel (1927), Sébastien Vaillant (1669), Chlodulf of Metz (null), Henry Bataille (1872), and Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842). After him are Maurice Genevoix (1890), Édouard Deldevez (1817), Jean Desmarets (1595), Antonin Magne (1904), Jeanne Jugan (1792), and Pasquier Quesnel (1634).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Achille Valenciennes ranks 70Before him are Jean Victoir Audouin (1797), Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776), Joseph Paul Gaimard (1793), Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752), René Dubos (1901), and Sébastien Vaillant (1669). After him are Jules Émile Planchon (1823), Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778), Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715), Bernard Heuvelmans (1916), Eugène Simon (1848), and Jean de Thévenot (1633).