BIOLOGIST

Alexander Agassiz

1835 - 1910

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Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz (December 17, 1835 – March 27, 1910), son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Agassiz has received more than 193,536 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Alexander Agassiz is the 195th most popular biologist (up from 679th in 2019), the 147th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 452nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Swiss Biologist.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.03

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  • 1.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alexander Agassiz ranks 195 out of 1,097. Before him are Eva Ekeblad, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Daniel Nathans, Henry Walter Bates, George Shaw, and Asa Gray. After him are Temple Grandin, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, John James Audubon, Charles Bell, and Hugo Gunckel Lüer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Alexander Agassiz ranks 30. Before him are Adolph Wagner, Hijikata Toshizō, Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Shoqan Walikhanov, Elisha Gray, and Mendele Mocher Sforim. After him are Simon Newcomb, Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, Matsukata Masayoshi, Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Alexandrine Tinné, and Tomás Estrada Palma. Among people deceased in 1910, Alexander Agassiz ranks 35. Before him are Jean Moréas, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Mikhail Vrubel, William Huggins, Richard Abegg, and Auguste Charlois. After him are Henri-Edmond Cross, Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, Boutros Ghali, Andreas Achenbach, Charles Rolls, and Eliza Orzeszkowa.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Alexander Agassiz ranks 147 out of 1,015. Before him are Charles Gleyre (1806), Hugo Koblet (1925), Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza (1945), Théophile Steinlen (1859), Ami Argand (1750), and Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (1938). After him are Jaime, Duke of Madrid (1870), Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1867), Jakob Ammann (1644), Auguste Forel (1848), and Köbi Kuhn (1943).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Alexander Agassiz ranks 8. Before him are Daniel Bovet (1907), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Werner Arber (1929), Louis Agassiz (1807), Gaspard Bauhin (1560), and Charles Bonnet (1720). After him are Albert von Kölliker (1817), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Carl Nägeli (1817), Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884), Abraham Trembley (1710), and François-Alphonse Forel (1841).

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