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Jean-Étienne Guettard

1715 - 1786

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Jean-Étienne Guettard (22 September 1715 – 7 January 1786), was a French naturalist and mineralogist. He was born at Étampes, near Paris. In boyhood, he gained a knowledge of plants from his grandfather, who was an apothecary, and later he qualified as a doctor in medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Étienne Guettard has received more than 28,149 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jean-Étienne Guettard is the 590th most popular biologist (down from 500th in 2019), the 3,924th most popular biography from France (down from 3,529th in 2019) and the 79th most popular French Biologist.

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  • 1.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jean-Étienne Guettard ranks 590 out of 1,097. Before him are Franz Unger, Johann Gottfried Zinn, Tsuneko Okazaki, João de Loureiro, Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan, and Garrett Hardin. After him are Antoine Risso, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Euclides da Cunha, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, Erwin Stresemann, and Edouard Van Beneden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1715, Jean-Étienne Guettard ranks 18. Before him are Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, William Watson, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, and Pierre Charles Le Monnier. After him are Pedro Antonio de Cevallos, and Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet. Among people deceased in 1786, Jean-Étienne Guettard ranks 21. Before him are Bernardo de Gálvez, Thomas Wright, Princess Amelia of Great Britain, Nathanael Greene, Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar, and Gustaf Lundberg. After him are Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, John Byron, Gaspar de Portolá, John Stanley, and William Duesbury.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Étienne Guettard ranks 3,924 out of 6,770. Before him are Mathieu Valbuena (1984), Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan (1814), Bernardus Silvestris (1085), Gabrielle Wittkop (1920), Rémy Belleau (1528), and Émile Coste (1862). After him are Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve (1756), Wolfgang Windgassen (1914), Henri Decoin (1890), Peire Cardenal (1180), Antoine Risso (1777), and Marcel Jouhandeau (1888).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Jean-Étienne Guettard ranks 79. Before him are Paul Bert (1833), Jean-Pierre Changeux (1936), Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778), Augustin Saint-Hilaire (1779), Jean de Thévenot (1633), and Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan (1814). After him are Antoine Risso (1777), Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800), René Dubos (1901), Edmond de Sélys Longchamps (1813), Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856), and Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (1855).

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