BIOLOGIST

Carl Nägeli

1817 - 1891

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Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli (26 or 27 March 1817 – 10 May 1891) was a Swiss botanist. He studied cell division and pollination but became known as the man who discouraged Gregor Mendel from further work on genetics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Nägeli has received more than 92,332 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Carl Nägeli is the 296th most popular biologist (up from 301st in 2019), the 226th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 235th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Swiss Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Nägeli ranks 296 out of 1,097. Before him are Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, Johann Hermann, Carl Hagenbeck, Leopold Fitzinger, Otto Brunfels, and Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart. After him are Friedrich Loeffler, Félix d'Herelle, Nikolai Severtzov, Conrad Moench, Alexander von Middendorff, and Clemens von Pirquet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Carl Nägeli ranks 30. Before him are Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Antonio de Torres Jurado, Princess Marie Amelie of Baden, János Arany, and Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac. After him are Mihail Kogălniceanu, José Zorrilla, Nikolay Kostomarov, Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary, and Bernhard Windscheid. Among people deceased in 1891, Carl Nägeli ranks 47. Before him are Pierre de Decker, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Jean Stas, N. R. Pogson, Aleksander Chodźko, and Giovanni Morelli. After him are Mihail Kogălniceanu, Prince Baudouin of Belgium, Ludvig Lorenz, Paul de Lagarde, Friedrich von Schmidt, and José Manuel Balmaceda.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Carl Nägeli ranks 226 out of 1,015. Before him are Robert Miles (1969), Denis de Rougemont (1906), George de Mestral (1907), Pascal Couchepin (1942), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), and Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742). After him are Marcel Bezençon (1907), Pierre Jeanneret (1896), Jean-André Deluc (1727), Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825), Jean Vanier (1928), and Heinrich Glarean (1488).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Carl Nägeli ranks 11. Before him are Louis Agassiz (1807), Gaspard Bauhin (1560), Charles Bonnet (1720), Alexander Agassiz (1835), Albert von Kölliker (1817), and Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742). After him are Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884), Abraham Trembley (1710), François-Alphonse Forel (1841), Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810), Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818), and Carl Meissner (1800).

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