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BIOLOGIST

Janaki Ammal

1897 - 1984

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Edavalath Kakkat Janaki Ammal (4 November 1897 – 7 February 1984) was an Indian botanist who worked on plant breeding, cytogenetics and phytogeography. Her most notable work involved studies on sugarcane and the eggplant (brinjal). She also worked on the cytogenetics of a range of plants and co-authored the Chromosome Atlas of Cultivated Plants (1945) with C.D. Darlington. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Janaki Ammal has received more than 480,085 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Janaki Ammal is the 558th most popular biologist (up from 719th in 2019), the 461st most popular biography from India (up from 522nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Janaki Ammal ranks 558 out of 841. Before her are Frédéric Cuvier, Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, Ivan Martinov, Paul Bert, and Richard Lewontin. After her are Anne McLaren, Ludwik Hirszfeld, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, Carl Alexander Clerck, Joseph Banks Rhine, and Franz Meyen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Janaki Ammal ranks 188. Before her are Moe Howard, Higinio Morínigo, Fletcher Henderson, Harald Sæverud, Ardito Desio, and George Murdock. After her are Zhou Fohai, Johannes Winkler, Lya Mara, Edgard Colle, Nikolai Gikalo, and Gene Tunney. Among people deceased in 1984, Janaki Ammal ranks 143. Before her are Ethel Merman, Marcel Moyse, Gino Bianco, Peter Walker, Roberto Porta, and Ralph Kirkpatrick. After her are Red Garland, Eulogio Martínez, Rambai Barni, Wolfgang Staudte, Grete Hermann, and Vincent J. McMahon.

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In India

Among people born in India, Janaki Ammal ranks 461 out of 1,493. Before her are Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (1898), Jagat Gosain (1573), Venkaiah Naidu (1949), Suriya (1975), Dharamvir Bharati (1926), and Amjad Khan (1940). After her are Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805), Soumitra Chatterjee (1935), Bipin Rawat (1958), Andrew Scott Waugh (1810), Om Puri (1950), and Shuja-ud-Daula (1732).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In India

Among biologists born in India, Janaki Ammal ranks 2. Before her are Salim Ali (1896). After her are Robert Swinhoe (1836), Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914), and Sunetra Gupta (1965).

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