BIOLOGIST

Edouard Van Beneden

1846 - 1910

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Édouard Joseph Louis Marie Van Beneden (5 March 1846 in Leuven – 28 April 1910 in Liège) was a Belgian embryologist, cytologist and marine biologist. He was professor of zoology at the University of Liège. He contributed to cytogenetics by his works on the roundworm Ascaris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edouard Van Beneden has received more than 42,437 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Edouard Van Beneden is the 596th most popular biologist (down from 455th in 2019), the 534th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 435th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Belgian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Edouard Van Beneden ranks 596 out of 1,097. Before him are Jean-Étienne Guettard, Antoine Risso, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Euclides da Cunha, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, and Erwin Stresemann. After him are Carl Chun, Charles Antoine Lemaire, Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, René Dubos, Jack Horner, and Heinrich von Kittlitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Edouard Van Beneden ranks 83. Before him are Giuseppe De Nittis, Emil Warburg, Carrie Nation, Luc-Olivier Merson, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, and Alexandre de Serpa Pinto. After him are Albert Chmielowski, Alexander Karpinsky, Paul Déroulède, Sophie Menter, Giulio Bizzozero, and Anna Katharine Green. Among people deceased in 1910, Edouard Van Beneden ranks 78. Before him are Andrea Costa, Fredrik von Otter, Édouard Colonne, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Julius Petersen, and Pedro Montt. After him are Léon Delagrange, Bertalan Székely, Zdenko Hans Skraup, Emil Zuckerkandl, Louis Henri Boussenard, and Pierre Nord Alexis.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Edouard Van Beneden ranks 534 out of 1,190. Before him are Jan Fabre (1958), Jean Aerts (1907), Simon Leys (1935), Frans Pourbus the Elder (1545), Henri Jaspar (1870), and Thomas Vermaelen (1985). After him are Elias M. Stein (1931), Michel Pollentier (1951), Levina Teerlinc (1510), Henry Carton de Wiart (1869), François Van der Elst (1954), and Lorenzo Staelens (1964).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Belgium

Among biologists born in Belgium, Edouard Van Beneden ranks 5. Before him are Jules Bordet (1870), Albert Claude (1899), Henri Milne-Edwards (1800), and Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier (1797). After him are George Albert Boulenger (1858), Marie-Anne Libert (1782), Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman (1866), and Peter Piot (1949).

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