BIOLOGIST

Carl Correns

1864 - 1933

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Carl Erich Correns (19 September 1864 – 14 February 1933) was a German botanist and geneticist notable primarily for his independent discovery of the principles of heredity, which he achieved simultaneously but independently of the botanist Hugo de Vries, and for his acknowledgment of Gregor Mendel's earlier paper on that subject. Correns was a student of Karl Nägeli, a renowned botanist with whom Mendel corresponded about his work with peas, and who subsequently engaged in a brief exchange of letters concerning reproducibility of the results in another species (Hieracium). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Correns has received more than 148,781 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Carl Correns is the 245th most popular biologist (up from 247th in 2019), the 1,942nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,112th in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Correns ranks 245 out of 1,097. Before him are James Rothman, Willi Hennig, Rudolf Vrba, Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, William Aiton, and Antoine Béchamp. After him are Hermann Schlegel, Martin Chalfie, Johann Baptist von Spix, Henri Milne-Edwards, Richard Henderson, and Alexander Georg von Bunge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Carl Correns ranks 62. Before him are Arthur Zimmermann, Mizzi Kaspar, Hermann Weingärtner, Ahmed Izzet Pasha, Soh Jaipil, and Isa Boletini. After him are William, Prince of Hohenzollern, Sheikh Said, Nikolay Chkheidze, Robert Grant Aitken, Wilhelm Souchon, and Alejandro Lerroux. Among people deceased in 1933, Carl Correns ranks 38. Before him are Louis Comfort Tiffany, Raymond Roussel, Anna de Noailles, Anagarika Dharmapala, Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, and Mary Parker Follett. After him are Haim Arlosoroff, Nitobe Inazō, Friedrich Zander, Hasan Prishtina, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Henri Duparc.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Correns ranks 1,942 out of 7,253. Before him are Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736), Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia (1155), Gustav Nachtigal (1834), Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1536), Katia Mann (1883), and Fastrada (765). After him are Hanns Martin Schleyer (1915), Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach (1721), Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1746), Fritz Fischer (1912), Juliana of Stolberg (1506), and Christoph I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1453).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl Correns ranks 37. Before him are Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778), Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775), Carl Gustav Carus (1789), Lorenz Oken (1779), Willi Hennig (1913), and Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797). After him are Hermann Schlegel (1804), Johann Baptist von Spix (1781), Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916), Eduard Rüppell (1794), Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), and Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809).

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