BIOLOGIST

Agostino Bassi

1773 - 1856

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Agostino Bassi, sometimes called de Lodi (25 September 1773 – 8 February 1856), was an Italian entomologist. He preceded Louis Pasteur in the discovery that microorganisms can be the cause of disease (the germ theory of disease). He discovered that the muscardine disease of silkworms was caused by a living, very small, parasitic organism, a fungus that would be named eventually Beauveria bassiana in his honor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Agostino Bassi has received more than 63,489 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Agostino Bassi is the 471st most popular biologist (up from 499th in 2019).

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Agostino Bassi ranks 471 out of 1,097. Before him are Joseph Gaertner, Carl Ludwig Koch, Camille Guérin, W. D. Hamilton, Aldo Leopold, and Eduard Friedrich Eversmann. After him are Anders Dahl, Alexander Kovalevsky, Jacques Loeb, Dmitry Belyayev, Henri Ernest Baillon, and Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1773, Agostino Bassi ranks 40. Before him are William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, Henrik Steffens, Joseph de Villèle, Lodewijk van Heiden, Arthur Aikin, and Jacob Aall. After him are Johann Karl Burckhardt, Josef August Schultes, Thomas Horsfield, François Fournier-Sarlovèze, Mihály Csokonai, and Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt. Among people deceased in 1856, Agostino Bassi ranks 40. Before him are Johann Kaspar Mertz, Vicente López y Planes, Lev Perovski, Julie Guicciardi, Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen, and Ninomiya Sontoku. After him are Jovan Sterija Popović, Henry Pottinger, Josef Kajetán Tyl, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, Michel Félix Dunal, and Ivan Kireyevsky.

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