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BIOLOGIST

Antoine-Augustin Parmentier

1737 - 1813

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Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (UK: , US: , French: [ɑ̃twan oɡystɛ̃ paʁmɑ̃tje]; 12 August 1737 – 13 December 1813) was a French pharmacist and agronomist, best remembered as a vocal promoter of the potato as a food source for humans in France and throughout Europe. His many other contributions to nutrition and health included establishing the first mandatory smallpox vaccination campaign (under Napoleon beginning in 1805, when he was Inspector-General of the Health Service) and pioneering the extraction of sugar from sugar beets. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoine-Augustin Parmentier has received more than 1,625,284 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Antoine-Augustin Parmentier is the 111th most popular biologist (up from 118th in 2019), the 1,168th most popular biography from France (up from 1,258th in 2019) and the 19th most popular French Biologist.

Antoine-Augustin Parmentier is most famous for his contribution to the French Revolution. He was a military pharmacist and is credited with saving the lives of many French citizens during the siege of Paris in 1792.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier ranks 111 out of 841. Before him are Sylvia Earle, Julius Richard Petri, Aaron Ciechanover, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, and George Davis Snell. After him are Sydney Brenner, John Ray, Giovanni Sartori, Archibald Hill, Oliver Smithies, and William Bateson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1737, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier ranks 8. Before him are Johann Friedrich Struensee, Edward Gibbon, Thomas Paine, Michael Haydn, Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, and Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. After him are Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Josef Mysliveček, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Louise of France, John Hancock, and Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Among people deceased in 1813, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier ranks 11. Before him are Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Jean-Andoche Junot, Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Christoph Martin Wieland, and Gerhard von Scharnhorst. After him are André Grétry, Tecumseh, Johann Baptist Wanhal, Giambattista Bodoni, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, and Princess Augusta of Great Britain.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier ranks 1,168 out of 6,011. Before him are Alice Guy-Blaché (1873), Pepin II of Aquitaine (823), Jacques I, Prince of Monaco (1689), Albert Roussel (1869), Flora Tristan (1803), and Suzanne Lenglen (1899). After him are Georges Prêtre (1924), Maurice Duverger (1917), Jacques Ibert (1890), Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780), Jean Mabillon (1632), and James II of Majorca (1243).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier ranks 19. Before him are Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), Jean Dausset (1916), Carolus Clusius (1525), André Michel Lwoff (1902), Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), and Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803). After him are Armand David (1826), Aimé Bonpland (1773), Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), Antoine Béchamp (1816), Michel Adanson (1727), and Pierre André Latreille (1762).

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