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Antoine Nicolas Duchesne

1747 - 1827

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Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (born 7 October 1747 Versailles; died 18 February 1827 Paris) was a French botanist known for his keen observation of variation within species, and for demonstrating that species are not immutable, because mutations can occur. "As Duchesne's observations were unaided by knowledge of modern concepts of genetics and molecular biology, his insight was truly remarkable." His particular interests were in strawberries and gourds. Duchesne worked in the gardens of Versailles, where he was a student of Bernard de Jussieu and corresponded with Carl Linnaeus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoine Nicolas Duchesne has received more than 40,257 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine Nicolas Duchesne is the 226th most popular engineer (up from 241st in 2019), the 3,718th most popular biography from France (up from 3,796th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne ranks 226 out of 389Before her are Seymour Cray, Ed Heinemann, Eugène Belgrand, Léon Serpollet, Kenneth Nichols, and Charles Renard. After her are Frederick W. Lanchester, Johann Georg Halske, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, Marc Isambard Brunel, Hidetsugu Yagi, and Arkhip Lyulka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1747, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne ranks 22Before her are John Paul Jones, Grigory Shelikhov, Timothy Dexter, George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer, and Franz von Paula Schrank. After her are Jean-François Rewbell, Alexander Bezborodko, Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel, Eugenio Espejo, György Bessenyei, and Iolo Morganwg. Among people deceased in 1827, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne ranks 27Before her are Thomas Rowlandson, Charlotte von Stein, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen, Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg, Heinrich Boie, and Pōmare III. After her are Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, Countess Friederike von Schlieben, Henry Salt, János Bihari, François Fournier-Sarlovèze, and José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne ranks 3,718 out of 6,770Before her are Jules Janin (1804), Théophile Thoré-Bürger (1807), Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui (1798), Gabriel François Doyen (1726), Julien Dupré (1851), and Marie Jules César Savigny (1777). After her are Henry Bataille (1872), Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847), Alexandre Falguière (1831), Gabriel Chevallier (1895), Georges Speicher (1907), and Corinne Marchand (1931).

Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne ranks 42Before her are François Hennebique (1842), Émile Lemoine (1840), Louis Dollo (1857), Eugène Belgrand (1810), Léon Serpollet (1858), and Charles Renard (1847). After her are Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798), Marc Isambard Brunel (1769), René Panhard (1841), Eugène Flachat (1802), Louis Vicat (1786), and Jean-Augustin Barral (1819).