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 131,500 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Joseph Pitton de Tournefort is the 84th most popular biologist (up from 94th in 2019), the 892nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,003rd in 2019) and the 15th 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 84 out of 1,097. Before him are Bernard Katz, Philip Miller, Ibn al-Baitar, Elizabeth Blackburn, Archibald Hill, and Charles Lucien Bonaparte. After him are Werner Arber, Stanley B. Prusiner, Ralph M. Steinman, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Erasmus Darwin, and Aaron Ciechanover.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1656, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort ranks 4. Before him are Edmond Halley, Marin Marais, and Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark. After him are Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Nicolas de Largillière, Guillaume Dubois, Robert de Cotte, Kateri Tekakwitha, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, and Guru Har Krishan. Among people deceased in 1708, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort ranks 4. Before him are Guru Gobind Singh, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, and Prince George of Denmark. After him are Hedvig Sophia of Sweden, Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Seki Takakazu, Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, 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 892 out of 6,770. Before him are Georges Dumézil (1898), Renée of France (1510), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Lucile Randon (1904), Sidonius Apollinaris (430), and Jean-Georges Noverre (1727). After him are Pierre Boulle (1912), Jules Ferry (1832), Edmond de Goncourt (1822), Claudine Auger (1941), Richard I of Normandy (933), and Jean Giraud (1938).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort ranks 15. Before him are Roger Guillemin (1924), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), François Jacob (1920), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), André Michel Lwoff (1902), and Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803). After him are Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), Jean Dausset (1916), Aimé Bonpland (1773), Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), and Michel Adanson (1727).

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