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Jean Nicot

1530 - 1605

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Jean Nicot de Villemain (French: [ʒɑ̃ niko də vilmɛ̃]; 1530 – 4 May 1604) was a French diplomat and scholar. He is famous for being the first to bring tobacco to France, including snuff tobacco. Nicotine is named after the tobacco plant Nicotiana tabacum, which in turn is named after Jean Nicot de Villemain, who sent tobacco and seeds to Paris in 1560, presented it to the French King, and who promoted their medicinal use. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Nicot has received more than 129,542 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Jean Nicot is the 78th most popular physician (down from 77th in 2019), the 666th most popular biography from France (up from 704th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Physician.

Jean Nicot was a French diplomat and scholar who introduced tobacco to France in 1560.

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  • 31

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  • 1.75

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Jean Nicot ranks 78 out of 502. Before him are Selman Waksman, Ronald Ross, Amenmesse, Cyril of Jerusalem, Theodor Morell, and Hotepsekhemwy. After him are Albert Szent-Györgyi, Shirō Ishii, Louis Auguste Blanqui, William T. G. Morton, August Krogh, and François Duvalier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1530, Jean Nicot ranks 6. Before him are Ivan the Terrible, Jean Bodin, Étienne de La Boétie, Uesugi Kenshin, and Anastasia Romanovna. After him are Yasuke, Louis, Prince of Condé, Ruy López de Segura, Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Jan Kochanowski, and Christopher Báthory. Among people deceased in 1605, Jean Nicot ranks 7. Before him are Akbar, Pope Clement VIII, Pope Leo XI, Boris Godunov, Handan Sultan, and Feodor II of Russia. After him are John Davis, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Theodore Beza, Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Naresuan, and Jan Zamoyski.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Nicot ranks 666 out of 6,011. Before him are Louis Blériot (1872), Marcel Lefebvre (1905), René Clair (1898), Salome Zourabichvili (1952), Louis de Montfort (1673), and Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922). After him are Joan II of Navarre (1311), Robert Curthose (1054), Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729), Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882), Jeanne Hébuterne (1898), and William Longsword (893).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Jean Nicot ranks 12. Before him are Ambroise Paré (1510), Karl Brandt (1904), Jean-Martin Charcot (1825), Hilary of Poitiers (315), Philippe Pinel (1745), and René Laennec (1781). After him are Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805), Charles Nicolle (1866), Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771), Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (1774), André Frédéric Cournand (1895), and Albert Calmette (1863).

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