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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 138,010 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Carl Correns is the 248th most popular biologist (up from 270th in 2019), the 2,114th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,186th in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Correns ranks 248 out of 841Before him are Otto Brunfels, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Michał Boym, Félix d'Herelle, Johann Baptist von Spix, and George Shaw. After him are Rupert Sheldrake, David Julius, August Grisebach, David Bruce, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, and Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Carl Correns ranks 65Before him are Princess Hilda of Nassau, Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Arthur Zimmermann, William, Prince of Hohenzollern, Carsten Borchgrevink, and Wilhelm Souchon. After him are Auguste Charlois, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Ion I. C. Brătianu, Alexander Gretchaninov, Ante Trumbić, and Nikolay Chkheidze. Among people deceased in 1933, Carl Correns ranks 43Before him are Henri Duparc, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Roscoe Arbuckle, Hasan Prishtina, Nitobe Inazō, and Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria. After him are Hermann von François, Friedrich Zander, Sen Katayama, Theodor Lessing, Giovanni Giacometti, and Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Correns ranks 2,114 out of 6,142Before him are John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1658), Helmut Lachenmann (1935), Ernst Albrecht (1930), William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1629), Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg (1390), and John A. Roebling (1806). After him are Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (1598), Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1795), Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony (1757), Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1848), Nico Rosberg (1985), and Anna Schäffer (1882).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl Correns ranks 37Before him are Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), Friedrich Loeffler (1852), Joseph Gaertner (1732), Hieronymus Bock (1498), Otto Brunfels (1488), and Johann Baptist von Spix (1781). After him are August Grisebach (1814), Hermann Schlegel (1804), Eduard Rüppell (1794), Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809), Fritz Müller (1822), and Valerius Cordus (1515).