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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 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

Among biologists, Adolf Mayer ranks 407 out of 841Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Adolf Mayer ranks 57Before 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 109Before 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.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Mayer ranks 3,082 out of 6,142Before 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).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Adolf Mayer ranks 81Before 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).