BIOLOGIST

François-Alphonse Forel

1841 - 1912

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François-Alphonse Forel (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa alfɔ̃s fɔʁɛl]; 2 February 1841 – 7 August 1912) was a Swiss physician and scientist who pioneered the study of lakes, and is thus considered the founder, and the Father of limnology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François-Alphonse Forel has received more than 31,884 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). François-Alphonse Forel is the 345th most popular biologist (down from 331st in 2019), the 260th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 256th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Swiss Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, François-Alphonse Forel ranks 345 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl Sigismund Kunth, Wilder Penfield, Carl Ludwig Blume, Georg Franz Hoffmann, Abraham Trembley, and Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel. After him are Andrew Fire, Valerius Cordus, Ivan Regen, Anders Sparrman, Carlo Allioni, and Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, François-Alphonse Forel ranks 45. Before him are Otto von Gierke, Luigi Luzzatti, Prudente de Morais, Charles J. Guiteau, Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, and Wilfrid Laurier. After him are Elfrida Andrée, Józef Brandt, Catulle Mendès, Oreste Baratieri, Marie Alfred Cornu, and Anselmo Lorenzo. Among people deceased in 1912, François-Alphonse Forel ranks 59. Before him are Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria, Giovanni Pascoli, James S. Sherman, George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg, Allan Octavian Hume, and Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal. After him are Ernest Duchesne, Édouard Detaille, Ida Straus, Eloy Alfaro, Mykola Pymonenko, and Takuboku Ishikawa.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, François-Alphonse Forel ranks 260 out of 1,015. Before him are Ferdinand Kübler (1919), R. Norris Williams (1891), Giovanni Giacometti (1868), Yann Sommer (1988), Abraham Trembley (1710), and Ernst Brenner (1856). After him are Louis Zutter (1865), Princess Elena of Romania (1950), Giuseppe Motta (1871), Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810), Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767), and Domenico Trezzini (1670).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, François-Alphonse Forel ranks 14. Before him are Alexander Agassiz (1835), Albert von Kölliker (1817), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Carl Nägeli (1817), Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884), and Abraham Trembley (1710). After him are Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810), Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818), Carl Meissner (1800), Johann Bauhin (1541), Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (1829), and Oswald Heer (1809).

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