BIOLOGIST

Johann Wilhelm Meigen

1764 - 1845

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Johann Wilhelm Meigen (3 May 1764 – 11 July 1845) was a German entomologist famous for his pioneering work on Diptera. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Wilhelm Meigen has received more than 80,091 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Wilhelm Meigen is the 932nd most popular biologist, the 5,242nd most popular biography from Germany and the 187th most popular German Biologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Wilhelm Meigen ranks 932 out of 1,097. Before him are Shi Zhengli, Walter Migula, John Hopfield, Gerrit Smith Miller, Tokiharu Abe, and Richard Thomas Lowe. After him are Lucy Shapiro, Robert Wight, Aylmer Bourke Lambert, William Beebe, Johann Friedrich Adam, and Joseph Barcroft.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1764, Johann Wilhelm Meigen ranks 34. Before him are Edward Livingston, John Mawe, William Pinkney, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, and Carl Fredrik Fallén. After him is Mary Lamb. Among people deceased in 1845, Johann Wilhelm Meigen ranks 42. Before him are Karl Julius Perleb, Cassandra Austen, Francisco Manuel Blanco, Friedrich Ludwig Persius, Zaman Shah Durrani, and Thomas Phillips. After him are János Batsányi, Thomas Hood, Gabriel Moore, and Joseph Story.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Wilhelm Meigen ranks 5,242 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Ising (1900), Dennis Gansel (1973), Hugo Strauß (1907), Sylvia Hanika (1959), Grethe Weiser (1903), and Rainer Troppa (1958). After him are Thomas Köhler (1940), Rüdiger Schnuphase (1954), Werner Haas (1927), Thomas Hitzlsperger (1982), Torsten Gütschow (1962), and Gunhild Hoffmeister (1944).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Wilhelm Meigen ranks 187. Before him are Hermann Harms (1870), Jakob Emanuel Lange (1864), Johann August Ephraim Goeze (1731), Otto Bütschli (1848), Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (1825), and George Engelmann (1809). After him are Rudolf Schlechter (1872), Alexander Wendt (1958), Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller (1862), Tilly Edinger (1897), Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz (1834), and Carl H. Eigenmann (1863).

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