BIOLOGIST

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

1744 - 1829

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Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; French: [ʒɑ̃batist lamaʁk]), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biological evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance with natural laws. Lamarck fought in the Seven Years' War against Prussia, and was awarded a commission for bravery on the battlefield. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck has received more than 1,899,940 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Jean-Baptiste Lamarck is the 7th most popular biologist, the 82nd most popular biography from France (up from 87th in 2019) and the most popular French Biologist.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck is most famous for his theory of evolution, which was the first to propose that organisms evolve over time and pass on their traits to their offspring.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ranks 7 out of 1,097. Before him are Charles Darwin, Carl Linnaeus, Gregor Mendel, Alexander Fleming, Ivan Pavlov, and Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. After him are Ernst Haeckel, Konrad Lorenz, Georges Cuvier, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, and Karl Landsteiner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1744, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ranks 1. After him are Johann Gottfried Herder, Frederick William II of Prussia, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Pierre Méchain, Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, Abigail Adams, Infanta Maria Josefa of Spain, Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel, Conrad Moench, and Giacomo Quarenghi. Among people deceased in 1829, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ranks 2. Before him is Niels Henrik Abel. After him are John Jay, Pope Leo XII, Thomas Young, Humphry Davy, Paul Barras, Maria Anna Mozart, Friedrich Schlegel, François-Joseph Gossec, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, and Alexander Griboyedov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ranks 82 out of 6,770. Before him are William the Conqueror (1028), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Louis the Pious (778), Henry III of France (1551), Madame du Barry (1743), and Louis Braille (1809). After him are Louis XVII of France (1785), Pierre de Coubertin (1863), Jacques Chirac (1932), Louis IX of France (1214), Pope Urban II (1042), and Gustave Courbet (1819).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ranks 1. After him are Georges Cuvier (1769), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707), Luc Montagnier (1932), Charles Richet (1850), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Roger Guillemin (1924), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), François Jacob (1920), and Adelbert von Chamisso (1781).

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