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BIOLOGIST

Johannes Schmidt

1877 - 1933

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Ernst Johannes Schmidt (2 January 1877 – 21 February 1933) was a Danish biologist credited with discovering in 1920 that European eels migrate to the Sargasso Sea to spawn. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johannes Schmidt has received more than 7,731 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes Schmidt is the 710th most popular biologist, the 462nd most popular biography from Denmark and the 11th most popular Danish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johannes Schmidt ranks 710 out of 841Before him are N. E. Brown, William Thomas Blanford, Sabin Berthelot, Flossie Wong-Staal, Daniel Giraud Elliot, and Casimir de Candolle. After him are Karl Patterson Schmidt, David Keilin, Anton Reichenow, Wilhelm Hofmeister, Ray Lankester, and Francisco Manuel Blanco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Johannes Schmidt ranks 136Before him are Tom Thomson, Filippos Karvelas, Elena Guro, Charles Collignon, Roelof Klein, and Abelardo Olivier. After him are Bill Robinson, Dudley Pound, Joseph Stella, Vladimir Gardin, Ioannis Persakis, and Georges Johin. Among people deceased in 1933, Johannes Schmidt ranks 111Before him are Otto Stapf, Rudolph Lewis, F. Holland Day, Elizabeth Thompson, Baltasar Brum, and Sakai Toshihiko. After him are Anna Brigadere, Jack Pickford, Ring Lardner, Stasys Girėnas, Archibald Sayce, and Emil Magnusson.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Johannes Schmidt ranks 462 out of 893Before him are Knud Kristensen (1880), Jørgen Jørgensen (1780), Jørgen Pedersen Gram (1850), Birgit Brüel (1927), Lone Scherfig (1959), and Ole Madsen (1934). After him are Gustav Winckler (1925), Jens Christian Christensen (1856), Tage Reedtz-Thott (1839), Paprika Steen (1964), Nils Asther (1897), and Halfdan T. Mahler (1923).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Denmark

Among biologists born in Denmark, Johannes Schmidt ranks 11Before him are Christen C. Raunkiær (1860), Eugenius Warming (1841), Emil Christian Hansen (1842), Otto Friedrich Müller (1730), Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737), and Johan Lange (1818). After him are Nathaniel Wallich (1786) and Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795).