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Auguste Chevalier

1873 - 1956

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Auguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier (June 1873, in Domfront – June 1956, in Paris) was a French botanist, taxonomist, and explorer of tropical Africa, especially of French colonial empire in Africa that included Côte d'Ivoire. He also explored and collected plants in South America and tropical Asia. Chevalier was a prolific contributor to the knowledge of African plants, studying forest trees and their woods, grasses, and agricultural plants of the continent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Auguste Chevalier has received more than 17,105 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Auguste Chevalier is the 328th most popular biologist (up from 425th in 2019), the 2,678th most popular biography from France (up from 3,181st in 2019) and the 43rd most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Auguste Chevalier ranks 328 out of 1,097. Before him are Eugenius Warming, Phillip Allen Sharp, Michał Boym, Armen Takhtajan, Erich von Tschermak, and Philibert Commerson. After him are Alexander von Nordmann, Leizu, George Ord, Hermann Burmeister, Motoo Kimura, and Craig Venter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Auguste Chevalier ranks 80. Before him are Margaret Bondfield, Louis Feuillade, Alexey Shchusev, Iuliu Maniu, Joseph Paul-Boncour, and Nureddin Pasha. After him are John Flanagan, Leon Czolgosz, Thomas Curtis, Carl Flesch, Dámaso Berenguer, and Joseph Jongen. Among people deceased in 1956, Auguste Chevalier ranks 82. Before him are Guido Cantelli, Mikheil Gelovani, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, George Sarton, Felix Bernstein, and Aino Kallas. After him are Alexander Gretchaninov, Meghnad Saha, Ernest King, Charles Joughin, Eduardo Lonardi, and Évariste Lévi-Provençal.

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In France

Among people born in France, Auguste Chevalier ranks 2,678 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816), Emma Calvé (1858), Philibert Commerson (1727), Julie Delpy (1969), Paul Hazard (1878), and Henri Gervex (1852). After him are Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737), Peter John Olivi (1248), Dominique Lapierre (1931), Philippe de Mornay (1549), Madame Clicquot Ponsardin (1777), and Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse (1732).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Auguste Chevalier ranks 43. Before him are Charles Plumier (1646), Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801), Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805), Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752), Charles Chamberland (1851), and Philibert Commerson (1727). After him are Louis Claude Richard (1754), Pierre Magnol (1638), Antoine de Jussieu (1686), Achille Richard (1794), René Lesson (1794), and Félix Vicq-d'Azyr (1748).

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