BIOLOGIST

Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin

1855 - 1935

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Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (Russian: Иван Владимирович Мичурин; October 27 [O.S. October 15] 1855 – June 7, 1935) was a Russian practitioner of selection to produce new types of crop plants, Honorable Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and academician of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agriculture. Throughout all his life, Michurin worked to create new sorts of fruit plants. He introduced over 300 new varieties. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin has received more than 101,924 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin is the 96th most popular biologist, the 270th most popular biography from Russia (up from 316th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Biologist.

Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin was a Russian botanist and horticulturist, who is most famous for his work on cross-breeding plants.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin ranks 96 out of 1,097. Before him are Aaron Ciechanover, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Philip Sclater, Hermann Joseph Muller, John B. Calhoun, and Gabriele Falloppio. After him are Günter Blobel, Jules A. Hoffmann, Lynn Margulis, Oliver Smithies, John Franklin Enders, and Jean Dausset.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin ranks 8. Before him are Archduchess Sophie of Austria, Émile Verhaeren, Otto Liman von Sanders, John Browning, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, and Eleanor Marx. After him are Ernest Chausson, Percival Lowell, Paul Deschanel, Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal, Ned Kelly, and Robert Koldewey. Among people deceased in 1935, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin ranks 27. Before him are Hugo de Vries, Henri Pirenne, Komitas, Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, Mihajlo Pupin, and Max Liebermann. After him are Ali of Hejaz, Josef Suk, Hugo Junkers, Oda Krohg, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, and Johan Halvorsen.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin ranks 270 out of 3,761. Before him are Mykola Azarov (1947), Natalia Goncharova (1881), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Alexander Litvinenko (1962), Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (1605), and Nikita Mikhalkov (1945). After him are Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), Lyudmila Putina (1958), Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (1895), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938), and Ramzan Kadyrov (1976).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin ranks 6. Before him are Ivan Pavlov (1849), Vladimir Vernadsky (1863), Nikolai Vavilov (1887), Alexander Oparin (1894), and Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864). After him are Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Vladimir Demikhov (1916), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), and Kliment Timiryazev (1843).

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