BIOLOGIST

André Thouin

1746 - 1824

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André Thouin (10 February 1747 – 24 October 1824) was a French botanist. Thouin studied botany under Bernard de Jussieu, and in 1793 attained the chair of horticulture at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. He was a good friend of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, and the godfather of Jean Baptiste Lamarck's son Andre. He is remembered for contributions made in the field of agronomy, including scientific studies that involved improved grafting techniques and seed selection. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Thouin has received more than 18,005 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. André Thouin is the 715th most popular biologist, the 4,363rd most popular biography from France and the 103rd most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, André Thouin ranks 715 out of 1,097. Before him are Josephine Kablick, George Newbold Lawrence, Friedrich Reinitzer, François Marie Daudin, Joseph Leidy, and Richard Wettstein. After him are Albert Bernhard Frank, Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, Johan Andreas Murray, Angela Piskernik, Franz Xaver Fieber, and Emilie Snethlage.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, André Thouin ranks 33. Before him are Bernardo de Gálvez, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, William Curtis, Charles Cameron, Joachim Heinrich Campe, and Robert R. Livingston. After him are Louise du Pierry, James Wyatt, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Peter Jacob Hjelm, Henry Grattan, and Begum Samru. Among people deceased in 1824, André Thouin ranks 33. Before him are Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Agustín de Betancourt, Blasius Merrem, Fyodor Alekseyev, David Bushnell, and Hans Nielsen Hauge. After him are François Levaillant, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, Lachlan Macquarie, Caesar Augustus Rodney, Mah Laqa Bai, and Jonathan Dayton.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Thouin ranks 4,363 out of 6,770. Before him are Ferdinand Monoyer (1836), Eva Ionesco (1965), Cyril Raffaelli (1974), Philippe Djian (1949), Roger Vitrac (1899), and Stéphane Guivarc'h (1970). After him are Florence Delay (1941), Camille Cottin (1978), Michel Déon (1919), Adrien Rabiot (1995), Bacary Sagna (1983), and Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, André Thouin ranks 103. Before him are Émile Blanchard (1819), Henri Cassini (1781), Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794), Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet (1723), Édouard Spach (1801), and François Marie Daudin (1776). After him are Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759), Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778), Émile Oustalet (1844), Théodore Monod (1902), Alfred Moquin-Tandon (1804), and Auguste Duméril (1812).

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