BIOLOGIST

Henri Cassini

1781 - 1832

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Viscount Alexandre Henri Gabriel (vicomte) de Cassini (9 May 1781 – 23 April 1832) was a French botanist and naturalist, who specialised in the sunflower family (Asteraceae) (then known as family Compositae). He was the youngest of five children of Jacques Dominique, Comte de Cassini, famous for completing the map of France, who had succeeded his father as the director of the Paris Observatory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Cassini has received more than 24,287 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Cassini is the 687th most popular biologist (down from 542nd in 2019), the 4,268th most popular biography from France (down from 3,651st in 2019) and the 98th most popular French Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 24k

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  • 48.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Henri Cassinis by language

Over the past year Henri Cassini has had the most page views in the with 2,944 views, followed by French (1,724), and Chinese (905). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (90.50%), Catalan (54.86%), and Azerbaijani (37.76%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Henri Cassini ranks 687 out of 1,097. Before him are Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt, John Hutchinson, Heinrich Göppert, Émile Blanchard, Johan August Wahlberg, and Lucas Alamán. After him are August von Pelzeln, Ernst Stromer, John Abbot, Johann Natterer, Astrid Cleve, and David Suzuki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, Henri Cassini ranks 38. Before him are Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana, Johann Friedrich Meckel, José de Madrazo y Agudo, Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela, Charlotte von Ahlefeld, and Joseph Johann von Littrow. After him are Andrés Narvarte, Joaquín Suárez, Alexander Vostokov, William John Burchell, José María Calatrava y Peinado, and Charles Joseph Minard. Among people deceased in 1832, Henri Cassini ranks 38. Before him are Demetrios Ypsilantis, Andrew Bell, Antonio Scarpa, Wilhelm Bendz, Karl Rudolphi, and Everard Home. After him are Franz Josef Gerstner, Marie-Jeanne de Lalande, George Crabbe, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Barnaba Oriani, and Johann Friedrich Adam.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Cassini ranks 4,268 out of 6,770. Before him are Hervé Revelli (1946), Léon Glovacki (1928), Roger de Barbarin (1860), Josette Day (1914), Roselyne Bachelot (1946), and Sylvie Guillem (1965). After him are Jean-Claude Andruet (1940), Virginie Ancelot (1792), Romain Duris (1974), Claude Puel (1961), Georges Grignard (1905), and Victor Louis (1731).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Henri Cassini ranks 98. Before him are Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835), Élie-Abel Carrière (1818), Jean René Constant Quoy (1790), Bernard Heuvelmans (1916), Joseph Paul Gaimard (1793), and Émile Blanchard (1819). After him are Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794), Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet (1723), Édouard Spach (1801), François Marie Daudin (1776), André Thouin (1746), and Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759).

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