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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 97,106 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin is the 97th most popular biologist (down from 51st in 2019), the 317th most popular biography from Russia (down from 204th 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 97 out of 841. Before him are Werner Arber, Bernard Katz, Ibn al-Baitar, William Carey, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, and Thomas Huckle Weller. After him are Carl Peter Thunberg, Nikolay Pirogov, Philip Sclater, Hans Christian Gram, Martinus Beijerinck, and Günter Blobel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin ranks 10. Before him are Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Otto Liman von Sanders, Émile Verhaeren, Ernest Chausson, Eleanor Marx, and Percival Lowell. After him are Paul Deschanel, Ned Kelly, Robert de Montesquiou, Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal, Arthur Nikisch, and Robert Koldewey. Among people deceased in 1935, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin ranks 28. Before him are John Macleod, Komitas, Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, Henri Pirenne, Josef Suk, and Mihajlo Pupin. After him are Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, Panait Istrati, Aron Nimzowitsch, Rashid Rida, Max Liebermann, and Magnus Hirschfeld.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin ranks 317 out of 3,262. Before him are Aleksey Kuropatkin (1848), Pavlik Morozov (1918), Alfred Schnittke (1934), Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890), Alexej von Jawlensky (1864), and Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933). After him are Georgy Chicherin (1872), Alexandre Kojève (1902), Ilia II of Georgia (1933), George Balanchine (1904), Johann Georg Hamann (1730), and Simeon of Moscow (1316).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

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

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