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BIOLOGIST

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 15,681 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Auguste Chevalier is the 426th most popular biologist (down from 385th in 2019), the 3,193rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,829th in 2019) and the 55th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Auguste Chevalier ranks 426 out of 841Before him are Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, Georg Franz Hoffmann, Giuseppe Acerbi, Alexander Braun, Otto Friedrich Müller, and Franz Xaver von Wulfen. After him are Harald Sverdrup, Johann Hedwig, Oscar Hertwig, Henri Ernest Baillon, Imre Frivaldszky, and Karl Gegenbaur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Auguste Chevalier ranks 100Before him are Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, Leo Baeck, Miklós Bánffy, Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, Matteo Bartoli, and Ford Madox Ford. After him are Willa Cather, Margaret Bondfield, Charles Fox Parham, Cesare Orsenigo, Rudolf Charousek, and Gabriel Terra. Among people deceased in 1956, Auguste Chevalier ranks 107Before him are Zoltán Halmay, Eduardo Lonardi, Tommy Dorsey, Leo Baeck, Paul Renner, and Vladimir Filatov. After him are Frigyes Riesz, Jean Hersholt, Preston Tucker, Austin Osman Spare, Jehanne D'Alcy, and Lewis Terman.

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In France

Among people born in France, Auguste Chevalier ranks 3,193 out of 6,011Before him are René Barjavel (1911), Loyset Compère (1440), Victor de Broglie (1785), Léo Malet (1909), Bernard de Jussieu (1699), and Charles Wolf (1827). After him are Gérard Grisey (1946), Pierre Nicole (1625), Georges Sadoul (1904), Jean Jouvenet (1644), François Habeneck (1781), and Érard de la Marck (1472).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Auguste Chevalier ranks 55Before him are Camille Guérin (1872), Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805), Matthias de l'Obel (1538), Louis Claude Richard (1754), Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746), and Félix Vicq-d'Azyr (1748). After him are Henri Ernest Baillon (1827), Alfred Grandidier (1836), Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716), Jean-Pierre Changeux (1936), Jean René Constant Quoy (1790), and Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794).