1846 - 1910
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, Edouard Van Beneden ranks 456 out of 841. Before 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.
1794 - 1871
HPI: 50.45
Rank: 450
1661 - 1706
HPI: 50.41
Rank: 451
1638 - 1715
HPI: 50.39
Rank: 452
1922 - 2006
HPI: 50.37
Rank: 453
1797 - 1853
HPI: 50.35
Rank: 454
1845 - 1920
HPI: 50.33
Rank: 455
1846 - 1910
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 456
1912 - 1951
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 457
1794 - 1852
HPI: 50.29
Rank: 458
1877 - 1933
HPI: 50.26
Rank: 459
1716 - 1774
HPI: 50.25
Rank: 460
1951 - Present
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 461
1813 - 1901
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 462
Among people born in 1846, Edouard Van Beneden ranks 71. Before 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 58. Before 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.
1846 - 1906
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 65
1846 - 1912
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 66
1846 - 1884
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 67
1846 - 1929
HPI: 50.58
Rank: 68
1846 - 1914
HPI: 50.48
Rank: 69
1846 - 1929
HPI: 50.35
Rank: 70
1846 - 1910
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 71
1846 - 1922
HPI: 49.58
Rank: 72
1846 - 1908
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 73
1846 - 1888
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 74
1846 - 1913
HPI: 49.02
Rank: 75
1846 - 1916
HPI: 49.01
Rank: 76
1846 - 1900
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 77
1833 - 1910
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 52
1872 - 1910
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 53
1826 - 1910
HPI: 51.90
Rank: 54
1831 - 1910
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 55
1866 - 1910
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 56
1839 - 1910
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 57
1846 - 1910
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 58
1840 - 1910
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 59
1864 - 1910
HPI: 49.93
Rank: 60
1841 - 1910
HPI: 49.65
Rank: 61
1849 - 1910
HPI: 49.63
Rank: 62
1848 - 1910
HPI: 49.62
Rank: 63
1857 - 1910
HPI: 49.58
Rank: 64
Among people born in Belgium, Edouard Van Beneden ranks 435 out of 1,019. Before 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).
1584 - 1648
HPI: 50.48
Rank: 429
1910 - 1976
HPI: 50.47
Rank: 430
1924 - 1989
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 431
1350 - 1403
HPI: 50.41
Rank: 432
1943 - 2022
HPI: 50.35
Rank: 433
1919 - 2004
HPI: 50.33
Rank: 434
1846 - 1910
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 435
1982 - Present
HPI: 50.29
Rank: 436
1483 - 1561
HPI: 50.29
Rank: 437
1640 - 1711
HPI: 50.26
Rank: 438
1886 - 1974
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 439
1908 - 2008
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 440
1991 - Present
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 441
Among biologists born in Belgium, Edouard Van Beneden ranks 5. Before 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).
1870 - 1961
HPI: 68.55
Rank: 1
1899 - 1983
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 2
1797 - 1878
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 3
1800 - 1885
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 4
1846 - 1910
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 5
1858 - 1937
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 6
1782 - 1865
HPI: 46.81
Rank: 7
1866 - 1947
HPI: 44.30
Rank: 8
1949 - Present
HPI: 39.62
Rank: 9