Biologist

Charles Richet

1850 - 1935

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Charles Richet

His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2024). Charles Richet is the 51st most popular biologist (down from 34th in 2024), the 527th most popular biography from France (up from 528th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Biologist.

Charles Richet is most famous for his research on anaphylaxis, which is a sudden and severe allergic reaction to a substance.

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Among Biologists

Among biologists, Charles Richet ranks 51 out of 1,097. Before him are Peter Simon Pallas, Harald zur Hausen, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Tomas Lindahl, and Irwin Rose. After him are Lazzaro Spallanzani, André Michel Lwoff, Karl Ernst von Baer, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, François Jacob, and Roger Guillemin.

Most Popular Biologists in Wikipedia

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Peter Simon Pallas
1741 - 1811
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 45
Harald zur Hausen
1936 - 2023
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 46
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
1852 - 1934
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 47
Nikolaas Tinbergen
1907 - 1988
HPI: 73.65
Rank: 48
Tomas Lindahl
1938 - Present
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 49
Irwin Rose
1926 - 2015
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 50
Charles Richet
1850 - 1935
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 51
Lazzaro Spallanzani
1729 - 1799
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 52
André Michel Lwoff
1902 - 1994
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 53
Karl Ernst von Baer
1792 - 1876
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 54
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
1947 - Present
HPI: 73.09
Rank: 55
François Jacob
1920 - 2013
HPI: 73.09
Rank: 56
Roger Guillemin
1924 - 2024
HPI: 72.93
Rank: 57

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Charles Richet ranks 12. Before him are Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Edward Smith, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Eduard Bernstein, and Hermann Ebbinghaus. After him are John Collier, Mihai Eminescu, Pierre Loti, Luigi Cadorna, Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, and Oliver Heaviside. Among people deceased in 1935, Charles Richet ranks 15. Before him are Victor Grignard, Emmy Noether, Alban Berg, Auguste Escoffier, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and Astrid of Sweden. After him are André Citroën, Henri Barbusse, Carlos Gardel, Hugo de Vries, Paul Dukas, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr..

Others Born in 1850

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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
POLITICIAN
1850 - 1937
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 6
Henry Louis Le Chatelier
CHEMIST
1850 - 1936
HPI: 76.20
Rank: 7
Edward Smith
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1850 - 1912
HPI: 75.53
Rank: 8
Sofia Kovalevskaya
MATHEMATICIAN
1850 - 1891
HPI: 75.24
Rank: 9
Eduard Bernstein
POLITICIAN
1850 - 1932
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 10
Hermann Ebbinghaus
PSYCHOLOGIST
1850 - 1909
HPI: 74.08
Rank: 11
Charles Richet
BIOLOGIST
1850 - 1935
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 12
John Collier
PAINTER
1850 - 1934
HPI: 71.01
Rank: 13
Mihai Eminescu
WRITER
1850 - 1889
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 14
Pierre Loti
WRITER
1850 - 1923
HPI: 70.48
Rank: 15
Luigi Cadorna
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1850 - 1928
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 16
Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton
POLITICIAN
1850 - 1922
HPI: 69.01
Rank: 17
Oliver Heaviside
MATHEMATICIAN
1850 - 1925
HPI: 68.83
Rank: 18