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BIOLOGIST

John Isaac Briquet

1870 - 1931

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John Isaac Briquet (13 March 1870 in Geneva – 26 October 1931 in Geneva) was a Swiss botanist, director of the Conservatoire Botanique at Geneva. He received his education in natural sciences at Geneva and Berlin, and studied botany with Simon Schwendener, Adolf Engler, Marc Thury, Johannes Müller Argoviensis, and Alphonse de Candolle. In 1896 he became a curator at the Conservatoire Botanique, later serving as its director (1906–1931). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Isaac Briquet has received more than 9,212 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. John Isaac Briquet is the 594th most popular biologist (down from 518th in 2019), the 404th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 337th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Swiss Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Isaac Briquet ranks 594 out of 841Before him are Fritz Schaudinn, Marie Jules César Savigny, Robert Swinhoe, Volcher Coiter, Shi Zhengli, and Roberto de Visiani. After him are Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, Friedrich Reinitzer, Alfred Cogniaux, Thomas Say, Edward Turner Bennett, and Heinrich Boie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, John Isaac Briquet ranks 113Before him are Sascha Schneider, Lars Sonck, Emil Młynarski, Henri Jaspar, Jędrzej Moraczewski, and Grigory Gershuni. After him are Jan Šrámek, Max Berg, R. B. Bennett, Victor Borisov-Musatov, José María Moncada, and Jüri Jaakson. Among people deceased in 1931, John Isaac Briquet ranks 100Before him are Kinue Hitomi, Constantin von Economo, Selma Rıza, Albert Capellani, Emil Warburg, and Kálmán Kandó. After him are Harald Høffding, Mammad Hasan Hajinski, Hjalmar Bergman, José Figueroa Alcorta, Marvin Hart, and Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, John Isaac Briquet ranks 404 out of 876Before him are Mansour Ojjeh (1952), Vreni Schneider (1964), Fabian Cancellara (1981), Constant Fornerod (1819), Carlo Clerici (1929), and Gaudenzio Marconi (1841). After him are Alain Berset (1972), Roger Vonlanthen (1930), Gustav Wiederkehr (1905), René Felber (1933), James of Saint George (1230), and Severino Minelli (1909).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, John Isaac Briquet ranks 19Before him are Carl Nägeli (1817), François-Alphonse Forel (1841), Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818), Abraham Trembley (1710), Oswald Heer (1809), and Alfred Newton (1829). After him are Johannes Müller Argoviensis (1828), Johann Amman (1707), Heinrich Zollinger (1818), Alexander Agassiz (1835), Casimir de Candolle (1836), and Émil Goeldi (1859).