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BIOLOGIST

Antoine Risso

1777 - 1845

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Giuseppe Antonio Risso (8 April 1777 – 25 August 1845), called Antoine Risso, was a Niçard and naturalist.Risso was born in the city of Nice in the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published Ichthyologie de Nice (1810), Histoire naturelle de l'Europe méridionale (1826) and Histoire Naturelle des Orangers (1818–1822). Risso's dolphin was named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoine Risso has received more than 46,426 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Antoine Risso is the 686th most popular biologist (down from 528th in 2019), the 4,083rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,350th in 2019) and the 101st most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Antoine Risso ranks 686 out of 841Before him are Alexander Agassiz, Nicolaus Michael Oppel, Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, Jacques Miller, Jan Frederik Gronovius, and John Richardson. After him are Carl Chun, William Hemsley, Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet, William Sherard, David Don, and Élie-Abel Carrière.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1777, Antoine Risso ranks 37Before him are Luis María de Borbón y Vallabriga, Casimir Pierre Périer, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz, Marie Jules César Savigny, Carlos Anaya, and Juan Martín de Pueyrredón. After him are Roger B. Taney, Thomas Campbell, John George Children, and Felix Grundy. Among people deceased in 1845, Antoine Risso ranks 31Before him are Rafael Urdaneta, Henrik Steffens, Christian Frederik Hansen, Johnny Appleseed, Nils Gabriel Sefström, and Elizabeth Fry. After him are Zaman Shah Durrani, Francisco Manuel Blanco, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, Thomas Hood, Joseph Story, and Gabriel Moore.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Risso ranks 4,083 out of 6,011Before him are Juliet Berto (1947), Louis de Freycinet (1779), Tahar Rahim (1981), Jérémy Ménez (1987), Alain Boghossian (1970), and Pierre Daninos (1913). After him are Robert Planquette (1848), Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1771), Joseph Alzin (1893), Régine Deforges (1935), Jérôme Le Banner (1972), and George du Maurier (1834).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Antoine Risso ranks 101Before him are Théodore Monod (1902), Paul Gervais (1816), Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800), Émile Oustalet (1844), Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778), and Jacques Miller (1931). After him are Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet (1723), Élie-Abel Carrière (1818), Sabin Berthelot (1794), François Marie Daudin (1776), Frédéric de Lafresnaye (1783), and Jules Verreaux (1807).