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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 85,355 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Carl Nägeli is the 302nd most popular biologist (down from 239th in 2019), the 235th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 184th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Swiss Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Nägeli ranks 302 out of 841. Before him are Phillip Allen Sharp, Ludwik Fleck, Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, Christian Ludwig Brehm, Lev Berg, and Motoo Kimura. After him are Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Karl Möbius, James Rothman, Theodor Boveri, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, and Lorenz Oken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Carl Nägeli ranks 32. Before him are Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Mihail Kogălniceanu, José Zorrilla, C. H. D. Buys Ballot, and János Arany. After him are Nikolay Kostomarov, Alfred Józef Potocki, Heinrich Graetz, Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Karl Vogt, and Debendranath Tagore. Among people deceased in 1891, Carl Nägeli ranks 52. Before him are Hannibal Hamlin, Paul de Lagarde, John A. Macdonald, Charles Joshua Chaplin, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, and José Manuel Balmaceda. After him are Aleksander Chodźko, Friedrich von Schmidt, Heinrich Graetz, Ferdinand Gregorovius, Sanjō Sanetomi, and Antonio Ciseri.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Carl Nägeli ranks 235 out of 876. Before him are Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825), Anton Graff (1736), Matilda of Habsburg (1253), Maurice Bavaud (1916), Gabriela Andersen-Schiess (1945), and Giovanni Giacometti (1868). After him are DJ BoBo (1968), Jean Starobinski (1920), Heinz Holliger (1939), Ivan Rakitić (1988), Rudolf Wolf (1816), and Ludwig Senfl (1486).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Carl Nägeli ranks 13. Before him are Louis Agassiz (1807), Albert von Kölliker (1817), Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Johann Bauhin (1541), and Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810). After him are François-Alphonse Forel (1841), Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818), Abraham Trembley (1710), Oswald Heer (1809), Alfred Newton (1829), and John Isaac Briquet (1870).

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