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BIOLOGIST

Eva Ekeblad

1724 - 1786

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Eva Ekeblad (née De la Gardie; 10 July 1724 – 15 May 1786) was a Swedish agriculturist and salon hostess. She discovered a method to make alcohol and flour from potatoes, significantly reducing Sweden's incidence of famine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eva Ekeblad has received more than 1,699,125 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Eva Ekeblad is the 223rd most popular biologist (down from 214th in 2019), the 274th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 248th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Eva Ekeblad ranks 223 out of 841Before her are Michael Rosbash, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Michael W. Young, Erik Acharius, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, and Adolf Engler. After her are Bruce Beutler, H. Robert Horvitz, Peter Forsskål, John Lindley, Francisco Varela, and Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1724, Eva Ekeblad ranks 14Before her are Louise of Great Britain, Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach, Peter von Biron, Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein, and Princess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After her are Franz Aepinus, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, George Stubbs, Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Gottfried Heinrich Bach, and John Michell. Among people deceased in 1786, Eva Ekeblad ranks 9Before her are Moses Mendelssohn, Maurice Benyovszky, Peter III of Portugal, Franz Benda, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, and Antonio Sacchini. After her are Tokugawa Ieharu, John Goodricke, Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, John Byron, Thomas Wright, and Princess Amelia of Great Britain.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Eva Ekeblad ranks 274 out of 1,612Before her are Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871), Björn Waldegård (1943), Erik Acharius (1757), Hjalmar Söderberg (1869), Thorbjörn Fälldin (1926), and Oskar Klein (1894). After her are Karin Boye (1900), Johan Vilhelm Snellman (1806), Jo Bonnier (1930), Stig Blomqvist (1946), Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson (1390), and Bo Widerberg (1930).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Eva Ekeblad ranks 10Before her are Carl Peter Thunberg (1743), Elias Magnus Fries (1794), Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), Adam Afzelius (1750), and Erik Acharius (1757). After her are Anders Sparrman (1748), Göran Wahlenberg (1780), Pehr Kalm (1716), Daniel Solander (1733), Anders Dahl (1751), and Olof Swartz (1760).