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BIOLOGIST

Alexander Kovalevsky

1840 - 1901

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Alexander Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ону́фриевич Ковале́вский; 7 November 1840 – 1901) was a Russian embryologist, who studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and became professor at the University of St Petersburg. He was the brother of the paleontologist Vladimir Kovalevsky, and the brother-in-law of the mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Kovalevsky has received more than 25,768 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Kovalevsky is the 469th most popular biologist (down from 408th in 2019), the 99th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 72nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Latvian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alexander Kovalevsky ranks 469 out of 841. Before him are W. D. Hamilton, Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, Jean Victoir Audouin, Jacob Sturm, and Richard Lydekker. After him are Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, Joseph Paul Gaimard, Craig Mello, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, and Garrett Hardin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Alexander Kovalevsky ranks 55. Before him are Titu Maiorescu, Dmitry Pisarev, Yaa Asantewaa, Francišak Bahuševič, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, and William Graham Sumner. After him are Charles Warren, Abraham Goldfaden, Chief Joseph, Viktor Knorre, Célestine Galli-Marié, and William Henry Conley. Among people deceased in 1901, Alexander Kovalevsky ranks 52. Before him are Arvid Posse, Aleksander Gierymski, Alfred Tysoe, Wojciech Gerson, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, and Jacob Georg Agardh. After him are Peter Benoit, Jules Barbier, Edward John Eyre, Frederic W. H. Myers, August Malmström, and Víctor Balaguer i Cirera.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Alexander Kovalevsky ranks 99 out of 284. Before him are Johann Anton Güldenstädt (1745), Vitas (1979), Alexander von Keyserling (1815), Nikolay Lossky (1870), Ernst von Bergmann (1836), and Arkady Raikin (1911). After him are Zenta Mauriņa (1897), Rosa von Praunheim (1942), Garlieb Merkel (1769), Morris Halle (1923), Jāzeps Vītols (1863), and Balys Dvarionas (1904).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Latvia

Among biologists born in Latvia, Alexander Kovalevsky ranks 3. Before him are Georg August Schweinfurth (1836) and Karl Eichwald (1795). After him are Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809) and Johann Gerhard König (1728).

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