BIOLOGIST

Albert Bernhard Frank

1839 - 1900

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Albert Bernhard Frank (17 January 1839 – 27 September 1900) was a German botanist, plant pathologist, and mycologist, born in Dresden. He is credited with coining the term mycorrhiza in his 1885 paper "Über die auf Wurzelsymbiose beruhende Ernährung gewisser Bäume durch unterirdische Pilze". Frank was commissioned to develop practical methods for truffle cultivation by the King of Prussia (Wilhelm I). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albert Bernhard Frank has received more than 42,875 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Bernhard Frank is the 716th most popular biologist, the 4,531st most popular biography from Germany and the 155th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Albert Bernhard Frank ranks 716 out of 1,097. Before him are George Newbold Lawrence, Friedrich Reinitzer, François Marie Daudin, Joseph Leidy, Richard Wettstein, and André Thouin. After him are Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, Johan Andreas Murray, Angela Piskernik, Franz Xaver Fieber, Emilie Snethlage, and Osbert Salvin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Albert Bernhard Frank ranks 75. Before him are Jakob Hurt, Nelson A. Miles, Nicolás de Piérola, Aleksandr Stoletov, Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, and Ludwig Mond. After him are Marianne Hainisch, Julius Friedrich Cohnheim, Julius Wilbrand, Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Tage Reedtz-Thott, and August W. Eichler. Among people deceased in 1900, Albert Bernhard Frank ranks 80. Before him are Johan Kjeldahl, Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Albert Samain, Émile Blanchard, Dankmar Adler, and Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent. After him are Hannibal Goodwin, John Anderson, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Victoire Léodile Béra, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, and Charles Piazzi Smyth.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albert Bernhard Frank ranks 4,531 out of 7,253. Before him are Gerhard Rohlfs (1892), Aleida Assmann (1947), Michael Gwisdek (1942), Peter Scholl-Latour (1924), Mirjam Pressler (1940), and Josef Bradl (1918). After him are Wolfgang Koeppen (1906), Erik Spiekermann (1947), Alwin Mittasch (1869), Sheryl Lee (1967), Andreas Krieger (1965), and Wolfgang Unzicker (1925).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Albert Bernhard Frank ranks 155. Before him are Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1773), Ernst Stromer (1871), Johann Jakob Kaup (1803), Johannes Baptista von Albertini (1769), Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1804), and Curt Backeberg (1894). After him are Emilie Snethlage (1868), Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz (1804), Karl Julius Perleb (1794), Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684), Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808), and Wilhelm Weinberg (1862).

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