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BIOLOGIST

Carl Linnaeus

1707 - 1778

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Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Linnaeus has received more than 7,136,838 page views. His biography is available in 172 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 167 in 2019). Carl Linnaeus is the 2nd most popular biologist, the 2nd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 1st in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Biologist.

Carl Linnaeus is most famous for his work on categorizing and naming plants and animals.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Linnaeus ranks 2 out of 841. Before him are Charles Darwin. After him are Gregor Mendel, Alexander Fleming, Ivan Pavlov, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Luc Montagnier, Ernst Haeckel, James Watson, Karl Landsteiner, and Konrad Lorenz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1707, Carl Linnaeus ranks 1. After him are Leonhard Euler, Carlo Goldoni, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Louis I of Spain, Frederick, Prince of Wales, Henry Fielding, Louis, Duke of Brittany, Louis-Michel van Loo, Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Michel Corrette, and Charles Wesley. Among people deceased in 1778, Carl Linnaeus ranks 3. Before him are Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire. After him are Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Anna Maria Mozart, Laura Bassi, James Hargreaves, Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano, Thomas Arne, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, and Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Carl Linnaeus ranks 2 out of 1,612. Before him are Alfred Nobel (1833). After him are Tycho Brahe (1546), Anders Celsius (1701), Ingmar Bergman (1918), Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594), Astrid Lindgren (1907), Selma Lagerlöf (1858), Olof Palme (1927), Charles XII of Sweden (1682), Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (1946), and Ingvar Kamprad (1926).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Carl Linnaeus ranks 1. After him are Hugo Theorell (1903), Tomas Lindahl (1938), Carl Peter Thunberg (1743), Elias Magnus Fries (1794), Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), Adam Afzelius (1750), Erik Acharius (1757), Eva Ekeblad (1724), Anders Sparrman (1748), and Göran Wahlenberg (1780).

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