BIOLOGIST

Ferdinand Cohn

1828 - 1898

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Ferdinand Julius Cohn (24 January 1828 – 25 June 1898) was a German biologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinand Cohn has received more than 165,919 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Ferdinand Cohn is the 71st most popular biologist (up from 118th in 2019), the 147th most popular biography from Poland (up from 219th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ferdinand Cohn ranks 71 out of 1,097. Before him are Linda B. Buck, André Michel Lwoff, August Weismann, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Alexander Oparin, and Robert Edwards. After him are Herman Boerhaave, Max Theiler, Ernst Mayr, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Svante Pääbo, and Dmitri Ivanovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Ferdinand Cohn ranks 12. Before him are Rani of Jhansi, Hippolyte Taine, Charbel Makhlouf, Randal Cremer, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Nikolay Chernyshevsky. After him are Albert Marth, Louise of the Netherlands, Albert of Saxony, John Langdon Down, Edmond François Valentin About, and Paul Gachet. Among people deceased in 1898, Ferdinand Cohn ranks 12. Before him are Charbel Makhlouf, Eugène Boudin, Ivan Shishkin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Johann Jakob Balmer, and Charles Garnier. After him are Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Eleanor Marx, Félicien Rops, Theodor Fontane, John Newlands, and Syed Ahmad Khan.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ferdinand Cohn ranks 147 out of 1,694. Before him are Anna Anderson (1896), Zvi Zamir (1925), Johann Gustav Droysen (1808), Albrecht von Roon (1803), Edward Sapir (1884), and Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860). After him are Bronisław Komorowski (1952), Bolesław III Wrymouth (1086), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Clara Immerwahr (1870), Alfred Tarski (1901), and Miroslav Klose (1978).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among biologists born in Poland, Ferdinand Cohn ranks 1. After him are Günter Blobel (1936), Georg Forster (1754), Adolf Engler (1844), Johann Reinhold Forster (1729), Julius von Sachs (1832), C. L. Gloger (1803), Gustav Radde (1831), Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799), Martin Rathke (1793), Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884), and Władysław Taczanowski (1819).

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