1867 - 1941
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch (28 October 1867 – 17 April 1941) was a German biologist and philosopher from Bad Kreuznach. He is most noted for his early experimental work in embryology and for his neo-vitalist philosophy of entelechy. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Driesch has received more than 121,849 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Driesch is the 172nd most popular biologist (down from 154th in 2019), the 1,375th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,337th in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Biologist.
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Among biologists, Hans Driesch ranks 172 out of 841. Before him are César Milstein, Renato Dulbecco, Louis Agassiz, Michael Houghton, Temple Grandin, and John B. Calhoun. After him are Wilbur Scoville, Stephen Jay Gould, Edward Tatum, Leland H. Hartwell, Antoine Béchamp, and J. B. S. Haldane.
1927 - 2002
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 166
1914 - 2012
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 167
1807 - 1873
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 168
1949 - Present
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 169
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 170
1917 - 1995
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 171
1867 - 1941
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 172
1865 - 1942
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 173
1941 - 2002
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 174
1909 - 1975
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 175
1939 - Present
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 176
1816 - 1908
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 177
1892 - 1964
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 178
Among people born in 1867, Hans Driesch ranks 42. Before him are Alexander Parvus, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Wilhelm Groener, Edgar de Wahl, and Winsor McCay. After him are Leo Jogiches, Antti Aarne, Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Charles Koechlin, Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, and Jeanne Lanvin. Among people deceased in 1941, Hans Driesch ranks 50. Before him are Ernst Lindemann, Rudolf Hilferding, Ludwig Quidde, Paul-Jacques Curie, Gaetano Mosca, and Tullio Levi-Civita. After him are Lou Gehrig, Edwin S. Porter, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Maria Spiridonova, Franz Gürtner, and Émile Picard.
1867 - 1924
HPI: 60.68
Rank: 36
1867 - 1928
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 37
1867 - 1909
HPI: 59.71
Rank: 38
1867 - 1939
HPI: 59.27
Rank: 39
1867 - 1948
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 40
1867 - 1934
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 41
1867 - 1941
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 42
1867 - 1919
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 43
1867 - 1925
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 44
1867 - 1956
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 45
1867 - 1950
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 46
1867 - 1952
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 47
1867 - 1946
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 48
1894 - 1941
HPI: 59.69
Rank: 44
1877 - 1941
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 45
1858 - 1941
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 46
1855 - 1941
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 47
1858 - 1941
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 48
1873 - 1941
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 49
1867 - 1941
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 50
1903 - 1941
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 51
1870 - 1941
HPI: 58.53
Rank: 52
1897 - 1941
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 53
1884 - 1941
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 54
1881 - 1941
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 55
1856 - 1941
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 56
Among people born in Germany, Hans Driesch ranks 1,375 out of 6,142. Before him are Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (1803), Conrad II of Italy (1074), Siegfried Kracauer (1889), Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884), Max Schreck (1879), and Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1814). After him are John George IV, Elector of Saxony (1668), Til Schweiger (1963), Axel Honneth (1949), Hartmann von Aue (1160), Otto Wels (1873), and Jakob Wassermann (1873).
1803 - 1829
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 1,369
1074 - 1101
HPI: 58.67
Rank: 1,370
1889 - 1966
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 1,371
1884 - 1948
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 1,372
1879 - 1936
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 1,373
1814 - 1858
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 1,374
1867 - 1941
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 1,375
1668 - 1694
HPI: 58.64
Rank: 1,376
1963 - Present
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 1,377
1949 - Present
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 1,378
1160 - 1210
HPI: 58.60
Rank: 1,379
1873 - 1939
HPI: 58.60
Rank: 1,380
1873 - 1934
HPI: 58.60
Rank: 1,381
Among biologists born in Germany, Hans Driesch ranks 20. Before him are Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739), Walther Flemming (1843), Theodor Escherich (1857), Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942), Erwin Neher (1944), and Bert Sakmann (1942). After him are Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748), Friedrich Parrot (1791), Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), Carl Gustav Carus (1789), and Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806).
1739 - 1810
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 14
1843 - 1905
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 15
1857 - 1911
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 16
1942 - Present
HPI: 59.10
Rank: 17
1944 - Present
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 18
1942 - Present
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 19
1867 - 1941
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 20
1748 - 1804
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 21
1791 - 1841
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 22
1757 - 1822
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 23
1795 - 1876
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 24
1789 - 1869
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 25
1806 - 1886
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 26