1843 - 1942
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 71,761 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Mayer is the 407th most popular biologist, the 3,082nd most popular biography from Germany and the 81st most popular German Biologist.
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Among biologists, Adolf Mayer ranks 407 out of 841. Before him are Henri Milne-Edwards, Heinrich Anton de Bary, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Abraham Trembley, Hermann Burmeister, and William Curtis. After him are Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Matthias de l'Obel, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Louis Claude Richard, Peter Artedi, and Henrik Steffens.
1800 - 1885
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 401
1831 - 1888
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 402
1805 - 1861
HPI: 51.57
Rank: 403
1710 - 1784
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 404
1807 - 1892
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 405
1746 - 1799
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 406
1843 - 1942
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 407
1722 - 1799
HPI: 51.44
Rank: 408
1538 - 1616
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 409
1794 - 1865
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 410
1754 - 1821
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 411
1705 - 1735
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 412
1773 - 1845
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 413
Among people born in 1843, Adolf Mayer ranks 57. Before him are Otto Kuntze, Johannes Schmidt, Fyodor Stravinsky, Saigō Jūdō, Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, and David Gill. After him are Henri Regnault, Gaston Tissandier, Louis Duchesne, Gertrude Jekyll, Emily Warren Roebling, and Mark Antokolsky. Among people deceased in 1942, Adolf Mayer ranks 109. Before him are Yakov Perelman, Emma Calvé, Charlie Christian, Joseph Larmor, Jacques-Émile Blanche, and Aurel Stodola. After him are Vladimir Petlyakov, Heinrich Vogeler, Léon Daudet, Ahatanhel Krymsky, Olga Benário Prestes, and Francis Younghusband.
1843 - 1907
HPI: 52.24
Rank: 51
1843 - 1901
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 52
1843 - 1902
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 53
1843 - 1902
HPI: 52.01
Rank: 54
1843 - 1927
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 55
1843 - 1914
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 56
1843 - 1942
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 57
1843 - 1871
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 58
1843 - 1899
HPI: 50.52
Rank: 59
1843 - 1922
HPI: 50.12
Rank: 60
1843 - 1932
HPI: 50.02
Rank: 61
1843 - 1903
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 62
1843 - 1902
HPI: 49.89
Rank: 63
1882 - 1942
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 103
1858 - 1942
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 104
1916 - 1942
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 105
1857 - 1942
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 106
1861 - 1942
HPI: 51.82
Rank: 107
1859 - 1942
HPI: 51.63
Rank: 108
1843 - 1942
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 109
1891 - 1942
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 110
1872 - 1942
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 111
1867 - 1942
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 112
1871 - 1942
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 113
1908 - 1942
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 114
1863 - 1942
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 115
Among people born in Germany, Adolf Mayer ranks 3,082 out of 6,142. Before him are Frederick William, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1675), Hermann Burmeister (1807), Paul van Dyk (1971), Alojs Andritzki (1914), Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg (1826), and Roger Schmidt (1967). After him are Marianne Cope (1838), Halet Çambel (1916), Thomas Gottschalk (1950), Karl Koller (1898), Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), and Hamit Altıntop (1982).
1675 - 1713
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 3,076
1807 - 1892
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 3,077
1971 - Present
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 3,078
1914 - 1943
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 3,079
1826 - 1896
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 3,080
1967 - Present
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 3,081
1843 - 1942
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 3,082
1838 - 1918
HPI: 51.44
Rank: 3,083
1916 - 2014
HPI: 51.44
Rank: 3,084
1950 - Present
HPI: 51.44
Rank: 3,085
1898 - 1951
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 3,086
1873 - 1962
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 3,087
1982 - Present
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 3,088
Among biologists born in Germany, Adolf Mayer ranks 81. Before him are Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper (1742), Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (1782), Moritz Wagner (1813), Ludwig Reichenbach (1793), Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831), and Hermann Burmeister (1807). After him are Georg Franz Hoffmann (1760), Alexander Braun (1805), Oscar Hertwig (1849), Karl Gegenbaur (1826), Heinrich Kuhl (1797), and Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776).
1742 - 1810
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 75
1782 - 1867
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 76
1813 - 1887
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 77
1793 - 1879
HPI: 51.76
Rank: 78
1831 - 1888
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 79
1807 - 1892
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 80
1843 - 1942
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 81
1760 - 1826
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 82
1805 - 1877
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 83
1849 - 1922
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 84
1826 - 1903
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 85
1797 - 1821
HPI: 51.04
Rank: 86
1776 - 1858
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 87