BIOLOGIST

Alphonse Milne-Edwards

1835 - 1900

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Alphonse Milne-Edwards (Paris, 13 October 1835 – Paris, 21 April 1900) was a French mammalogist, ornithologist, and carcinologist. He was English in origin, the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of Bryan Edwards, a Jamaican planter who settled at Bruges (then in France).Milne-Edwards obtained a medical degree in 1859 and became assistant to his father at the Jardin des Plantes in 1876. He became the director of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1891, devoting himself especially to fossil birds and deep-sea exploration. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alphonse Milne-Edwards has received more than 56,360 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Alphonse Milne-Edwards is the 639th most popular biologist (down from 623rd in 2019), the 4,088th most popular biography from France (down from 3,895th in 2019) and the 92nd most popular French Biologist.

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  • 49.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Alphonse Milne-Edwards has had the most page views in the with 6,027 views, followed by French (1,822), and Spanish (1,229). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (91.81%), Javanese (83.59%), and Mirandese (54.07%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alphonse Milne-Edwards ranks 639 out of 1,097. Before him are Ludwik Hirszfeld, Adrien René Franchet, Nikolay Drozdov, Volcher Coiter, Anna Russell, and Michel Félix Dunal. After him are William Withering, David Don, Charles David Keeling, Everard Home, Karl Hugo Strunz, and Petter Adolf Karsten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Alphonse Milne-Edwards ranks 63. Before him are Rain-in-the-Face, Manuel Quintana, Bertalan Székely, Désirée Artôt, Antanas Baranauskas, and Justo Rufino Barrios. After him are Alexander Litovchenko, Tommaso Salvadori, Louis-Antoine Ranvier, Paul Du Chaillu, Kārlis Baumanis, and Germanus V of Constantinople. Among people deceased in 1900, Alphonse Milne-Edwards ranks 75. Before him are Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps, Gustaf Åkerhielm, James Edward Keeler, Adrien René Franchet, and Johan Kjeldahl. After him are Albert Samain, Émile Blanchard, Dankmar Adler, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, Albert Bernhard Frank, and Hannibal Goodwin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alphonse Milne-Edwards ranks 4,088 out of 6,770. Before him are Maurice Sachs (1906), Dominique Wilkins (1960), Michel Blanc (1952), Aymeric Laporte (1994), Marc Fumaroli (1932), and Hippolyte Aucouturier (1876). After him are Louise-Victorine Ackermann (1813), Viktor Lazlo (1960), Gérard Pirès (1942), Yves Boisset (1939), Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841), and Claude Nougaro (1929).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Alphonse Milne-Edwards ranks 92. Before him are Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810), Jean Victoir Audouin (1797), Émile Duclaux (1840), René Maire (1878), Adrien René Franchet (1834), and Michel Félix Dunal (1789). After him are Élie-Abel Carrière (1818), Jean René Constant Quoy (1790), Bernard Heuvelmans (1916), Joseph Paul Gaimard (1793), Émile Blanchard (1819), and Henri Cassini (1781).

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