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BIOLOGIST

Hans Driesch

1867 - 1941

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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

Among biologists, Hans Driesch ranks 172 out of 841Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Hans Driesch ranks 42Before 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 50Before 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.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Driesch ranks 1,375 out of 6,142Before 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).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Hans Driesch ranks 20Before 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).