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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 in France (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 1,649,367 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Antoine-Augustin Parmentier is the 131st most popular biologist (down from 110th in 2019), the 1,188th most popular biography from France (down from 1,164th 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 131 out of 1,097. Before him are Othenio Abel, Charles Scott Sherrington, August Grisebach, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, Gaspard Bauhin, and Erwin Neher. After him are Giovanni Sartori, Elias Magnus Fries, E. O. Wilson, Bert Sakmann, Gerald Edelman, and Tomas Lindahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1737, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier ranks 9. Before him are Edward Gibbon, Thomas Paine, Michael Haydn, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and Louise of France. After him are Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, Josef Mysliveček, Tokugawa Ieharu, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Morten Thrane Brünnich, and John Hancock. Among people deceased in 1813, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier ranks 10. Before him are Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Empress Go-Sakuramachi, André Grétry, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, and Christoph Martin Wieland. After him are Tecumseh, Rose Bertin, George Shaw, Johann Baptist Wanhal, Jean-Andoche Junot, and Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier ranks 1,188 out of 6,770. Before him are Émile Bernard (1868), Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782), Tancred of Hauteville (980), Michel Tournier (1924), Émile Gallé (1846), and Paul Bourget (1852). After him are Arnulf of Metz (582), Édouard Vuillard (1868), Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (1346), Thomas, Count of Savoy (1178), François Cluzet (1955), and Charibert II (618).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier ranks 19. Before him are André Michel Lwoff (1902), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), Jean Dausset (1916), and Aimé Bonpland (1773). After him are Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), Michel Adanson (1727), Pierre André Latreille (1762), Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), Armand David (1826), and Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723).

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