BIOLOGIST

Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

1805 - 1861

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Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (French pronunciation: [izidɔʁ ʒɔfʁwa sɛ̃t‿ilɛʁ]; 16 December 1805 – 10 November 1861) was a French zoologist and an authority on deviation from normal structure. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire has received more than 97,630 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire is the 312th most popular biologist (up from 402nd in 2019), the 2,624th most popular biography from France (up from 3,097th in 2019) and the 39th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 312 out of 1,097Before him are Charles Plumier, Albert Günther, Pieter Boddaert, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Josias Braun-Blanquet, and Lev Berg. After him are Anton Reichenow, Patrick Geddes, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, Otto Friedrich Müller, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, and John Sulston.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 28Before him are Shirali Muslimov, Cochise, Joseph Škoda, Jonas Furrer, George Müller, and Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger. After him are Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Princess Amalia of Sweden, Eugène Schneider, Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Louise Bertin, and Johann Friedrich Klotzsch. Among people deceased in 1861, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 30Before him are Henri Mouhot, Henry Gray, Nikolay Dobrolyubov, Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, and Eugène de Mazenod. After him are Pierre Berthier, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Joachim Lelewel, Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov, Karol Lipiński, and John Stevens Henslow.

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In France

Among people born in France, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 2,624 out of 6,770Before him are Marius Aventicensis (532), Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (1716), Christian Metz (1931), Élisabeth Badinter (1944), Fulk II, Count of Anjou (920), and Françoise Dolto (1908). After him are Claude Rich (1929), Lucien Muller (1934), Nadine Trintignant (1934), Paul Adam (1862), Jean-Luc Marion (1946), and Jean-Delphin Alard (1815).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 39Before him are Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784), Johann Hermann (1738), Félix d'Herelle (1873), Charles Plumier (1646), and Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801). After him are Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752), Charles Chamberland (1851), Philibert Commerson (1727), Auguste Chevalier (1873), Louis Claude Richard (1754), and Pierre Magnol (1638).