BIOLOGIST

Jeanne Villepreux-Power

1794 - 1871

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Jeanne Villepreux-Power, born Jeanne Villepreux (24 September 1794 – 25 January 1871), was a pioneering French marine biologist, described by English biologist Richard Owen as the "Mother of Aquariophily." In 1832 she was the first person to invent and create aquaria for experimenting with aquatic organisms. The systematic application of the aquarium to study marine life which she created is still used today. As a leading researcher on cephalopods, she proved that the Argonauta argo produces its own shells, as opposed to acquiring them. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeanne Villepreux-Power has received more than 96,551 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jeanne Villepreux-Power is the 697th most popular biologist (down from 449th in 2019), the 4,305th most popular biography from France (down from 3,335th in 2019) and the 99th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jeanne Villepreux-Power ranks 697 out of 1,097. Before her are Johann Natterer, Astrid Cleve, David Suzuki, Johann Jakob Kaup, Johannes Baptista von Albertini, and Carl Skottsberg. After her are Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet, Jan Frederik Gronovius, Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, Ruth Arnon, and Jane Colden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Jeanne Villepreux-Power ranks 55. Before her are Leopold Zunz, John Biscoe, Carl Joseph Begas, Prince Frederick of Prussia, Edward Robinson, and Christian Albrecht Bluhme. After her are Karl Julius Perleb, Edward Everett, Mizuno Tadakuni, Umihana Čuvidina, Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen, and Sabin Berthelot. Among people deceased in 1871, Jeanne Villepreux-Power ranks 61. Before her are Robert Chambers, Paul Kane, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Jan Jacob Rochussen, Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine, and Paolo Savi. After her are Adolph Strecker, Robert Anderson, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Martín Carrera, Étienne Constantin de Gerlache, and Arvid August Afzelius.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jeanne Villepreux-Power ranks 4,305 out of 6,770. Before her are Luiz of Orléans-Braganza (1938), André Labatut (1891), Eugène Devéria (1805), Étienne Mourrut (1939), Maurice Lafont (1927), and Edmund, Earl of Rutland (1443). After her are Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet (1723), George du Maurier (1834), Carole André (1953), Otto Froitzheim (1884), Henri Masson (1872), and Julie Vlasto (1903).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Jeanne Villepreux-Power ranks 99. Before her are Élie-Abel Carrière (1818), Jean René Constant Quoy (1790), Bernard Heuvelmans (1916), Joseph Paul Gaimard (1793), Émile Blanchard (1819), and Henri Cassini (1781). After her are Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet (1723), Édouard Spach (1801), François Marie Daudin (1776), André Thouin (1746), Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759), and Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778).

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