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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 39,743 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Edouard Van Beneden is the 456th most popular biologist (up from 472nd in 2019), the 435th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 417th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Belgian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Edouard Van Beneden ranks 456 out of 841Before him are Jeanne Villepreux-Power, Georg Joseph Kamel, Pierre Magnol, Esther Lederberg, Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, and Wilhelm Pfeffer. After him are Sabiha Kasimati, Carl Borivoj Presl, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Otto von Münchhausen, Gregory Winter, and Jacob Georg Agardh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Edouard Van Beneden ranks 71Before him are Carlos Pellegrini, Lewis Boss, Giuseppe De Nittis, Basil III of Constantinople, Paul Déroulède, and Ernest Monis. After him are Max von Hausen, Friedrich Paulsen, Anna Kingsford, Marie Popelin, Albert Chmielowski, and Alexandre de Serpa Pinto. Among people deceased in 1910, Edouard Van Beneden ranks 58Before him are Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, Reginald Doherty, Hormuzd Rassam, Paolo Mantegazza, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, and Julius Petersen. After him are William Graham Sumner, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Laza Kostić, Giovanni Passannante, Kurd Lasswitz, and Knut Ångström.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Edouard Van Beneden ranks 435 out of 1,019Before him are Caspar Barlaeus (1584), Jean Servais (1910), Jean-Michel Charlier (1924), Katherine Swynford (1350), Herman Van Springel (1943), and Briek Schotte (1919). After him are Tony Parker (1982), Simon Bening (1483), Gerard de Lairesse (1640), Victor Boin (1886), Sœur Emmanuelle (1908), and Kevin De Bruyne (1991).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Belgium

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