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Charles Bonnet

1720 - 1793

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Charles Bonnet (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl bɔnɛ]; 13 March 1720 – 20 May 1793) was a Genevan naturalist and philosophical writer. He is responsible for coining the term phyllotaxis to describe the arrangement of leaves on a plant. He was among the first to notice parthenogenetic reproduction in aphids and established that insects respired through their spiracles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Bonnet has received more than 190,367 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Charles Bonnet is the 161st most popular biologist (down from 143rd in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 109th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Swiss Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charles Bonnet ranks 161 out of 1,097. Before him are Leland H. Hartwell, Norman Borlaug, Salvador Luria, Olaus Rudbeck, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, and Michel Adanson. After him are Joshua Lederberg, Susumu Tonegawa, Robert Whittaker, Johan Christian Fabricius, Renato Dulbecco, and Georges J. F. Köhler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1720, Charles Bonnet ranks 11. Before him are Carlo Gozzi, Anna Maria Mozart, James Hargreaves, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, Emperor Sakuramachi, and Heraclius II of Georgia. After him are Vilna Gaon, Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, Hyder Ali, and Honoré III, Prince of Monaco. Among people deceased in 1793, Charles Bonnet ranks 15. Before him are Yolande de Polastron, Francesco Guardi, Madame Roland, Jacques Pierre Brissot, Jean Sylvain Bailly, and Alexander Roslin. After him are Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, Antoine Barnave, John Hunter, Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, and Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Charles Bonnet ranks 120 out of 1,015. Before him are Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), Carla Del Ponte (1947), Gottfried Keller (1819), Micheline Calmy-Rey (1945), Jakob Steiner (1796), and Jacques Dubochet (1942). After him are Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), Paul Guldin (1577), Blaise Cendrars (1887), Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), Matthäus Merian (1593), and Margareta of Romania (1949).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Charles Bonnet ranks 7. Before him are Conrad Gessner (1516), Daniel Bovet (1907), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Werner Arber (1929), Louis Agassiz (1807), and Gaspard Bauhin (1560). After him are Alexander Agassiz (1835), Albert von Kölliker (1817), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Carl Nägeli (1817), Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884), and Abraham Trembley (1710).

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