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BIOLOGIST

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

1656 - 1708

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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (5 June 1656 – 28 December 1708) was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort has received more than 121,089 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort is the 95th most popular biologist (down from 77th in 2019), the 1,006th most popular biography from France (down from 952nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular French Biologist.

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort was a botanist who is most famous for his work in classifying plants. He is also credited with inventing the terms "family," "genus," and "species."

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort ranks 95 out of 841Before him are André Michel Lwoff, John Gurdon, Werner Arber, Bernard Katz, Ibn al-Baitar, and William Carey. After him are Thomas Huckle Weller, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Carl Peter Thunberg, Nikolay Pirogov, Philip Sclater, and Hans Christian Gram.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1656, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort ranks 5Before him are Edmond Halley, Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, Marin Marais, and Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. After him are Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Nicolas de Largillière, Robert de Cotte, Guillaume Dubois, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Kateri Tekakwitha, and Ferdinand de Marsin. Among people deceased in 1708, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort ranks 3Before him are Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Guru Gobind Singh. After him are Prince George of Denmark, Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons, Hedvig Sophia of Sweden, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, Seki Takakazu, Ludolf Bakhuizen, John Blow, and Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort ranks 1,006 out of 6,011Before him are Claude Cahun (1894), Robert I, Count of Artois (1216), René Girard (1923), Antoine Galland (1646), Charles-Marie Widor (1844), and Lucien Laurent (1907). After him are René II, Duke of Lorraine (1451), Claude of France (1547), Jacques Hadamard (1865), Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813), Clotilde of France (1759), and Ambroise Thomas (1811).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort ranks 17Before him are Roger Guillemin (1924), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), Jean Dausset (1916), Carolus Clusius (1525), and André Michel Lwoff (1902). After him are Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), Armand David (1826), Aimé Bonpland (1773), Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), and Antoine Béchamp (1816).