BIOLOGIST

Adolf Mayer

1843 - 1942

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Adolf Eduard Mayer (9 August 1843 – 25 December 1942) was a German agricultural biologist whose work on tobacco mosaic disease played an important role in the discovery of tobacco mosaic virus and viruses in general. Mayer was born in 1843 into the family of a high school teacher in Oldenburg. His mother was a daughter of renowned German chemist Leopold Gmelin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Mayer has received more than 77,527 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Adolf Mayer is the 503rd most popular biologist (down from 406th in 2019), the 3,627th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,079th in 2019) and the 109th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Adolf Mayer ranks 503 out of 1,097. Before him are George Prideaux Robert Harris, Jules Émile Planchon, Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, Francis Collins, Edward Blyth, and Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem. After him are Aaron Aaronsohn, Achille Valenciennes, Sébastien Vaillant, Edwin Klebs, Carl Jakob Sundevall, and Theodore Gill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Adolf Mayer ranks 63. Before him are Johannes Schmidt, Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine, Émile Levassor, Frederick Abberline, Harald Høffding, and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen. After him are Henri Regnault, Friedrich Robert Helmert, Peter Rosegger, Gertrude Jekyll, Ernest Mason Satow, and Louis Diémer. Among people deceased in 1942, Adolf Mayer ranks 146. Before him are Alberto Franchetti, J. B. M. Hertzog, Francis Younghusband, Alexey Troitsky, Emanuel Feuermann, and Xiao Hong. After him are Zsigmond Móricz, Mordechai Gebirtig, Jack Greenwell, Adolphe Grisel, Daniel Alomía Robles, and Ants Piip.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Mayer ranks 3,627 out of 7,253. Before him are Adolf III of Holstein (1160), Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762), ATB (1973), Otto Henry, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1556), Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1756), and Franz Bäke (1898). After him are Rupert Mayer (1876), Friedrich Sämisch (1896), Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein (1967), Dieter Herzog (1946), Rolf Hoppe (1930), and Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen (1712).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Adolf Mayer ranks 109. Before him are Archibald Reiss (1875), Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840), Johann Georg Wagler (1800), Moritz Wagner (1813), Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845), and Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772). After him are Johann Julius Walbaum (1724), Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (1757), Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824), Franz von Paula Schrank (1747), Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780), and Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (1750).

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