BIOLOGIST

Jan Evangelista Purkyně

1787 - 1869

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Jan Evangelista Purkyně (Czech: [ˈjan ˈɛvaŋɡɛˌlɪsta ˈpurkɪɲɛ] ; also written Johann Evangelist Purkinje) (17 or 18 December 1787 – 28 July 1869) was a Czech anatomist and physiologist. In 1839, he coined the term "protoplasma" for the fluid substance of a cell. He was one of the best known scientists of his time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Evangelista Purkyně has received more than 311,124 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Jan Evangelista Purkyně is the 48th most popular biologist (down from 41st in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 56th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Biologist.

Jan Evangelista Purkyně was a Czech physiologist and histologist who is most famous for his discovery of Purkinje cells.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jan Evangelista Purkyně ranks 48 out of 1,097. Before him are Karl Ernst von Baer, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Christian de Duve, Hans Spemann, Peter Simon Pallas, and Richard Owen. After him are René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Roger Guillemin, Hugo Theorell, Albert Claude, Jean-Henri Fabre, and François Jacob.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Jan Evangelista Purkyně ranks 6. Before him are Louis Daguerre, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Shaka, Vuk Karadžić, and François Guizot. After him are Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Rasmus Rask, Guillaume Henri Dufour, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Franz Xaver Gruber, and Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov. Among people deceased in 1869, Jan Evangelista Purkyně ranks 6. Before him are Franklin Pierce, Hector Berlioz, Alphonse de Lamartine, Ghalib, and Allan Kardec. After him are Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Hijikata Toshizō, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Thomas Graham, and Antoine-Henri Jomini.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Evangelista Purkyně ranks 63 out of 1,200. Before him are Peter Grünberg (1939), Anton Raphael Mengs (1728), Karl Renner (1870), George of Poděbrady (1420), Ludmila of Bohemia (860), and Franz Werfel (1890). After him are Jan Masaryk (1886), Jaroslav Seifert (1901), Jerome of Prague (1379), Karl Kraus (1874), Lída Baarová (1914), and Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Czechia

Among biologists born in Czechia, Jan Evangelista Purkyně ranks 2. Before him are Gregor Mendel (1822). After him are Jan Svatopluk Presl (1791), Rudolf Weigl (1883), Georg Joseph Kamel (1661), Carl Borivoj Presl (1794), Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794), Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761), Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858), August von Pelzeln (1825), Josephine Kablick (1787), and Friedrich Reinitzer (1857).

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