BIOLOGIST

Julius Richard Petri

1852 - 1921

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Julius Richard Petri (German: [ˈjuːli̯ʊs ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈpeːtʁiː]; 31 May 1852 – 20 December 1921) was a German microbiologist who is generally credited with inventing the device known as the Petri dish, which is named after him, while working as assistant to bacteriologist Robert Koch. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julius Richard Petri has received more than 177,273 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Julius Richard Petri is the 151st most popular biologist (down from 105th in 2019), the 1,142nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 959th in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Biologist.

Julius Richard Petri is most famous for inventing the dish, or petri dish.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Julius Richard Petri ranks 151 out of 1,097. Before him are Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jan Svatopluk Presl, Walther Flemming, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, and Carl Linnaeus the Younger. After him are Adolf Engler, Martin Evans, George Davis Snell, Leland H. Hartwell, Norman Borlaug, and Salvador Luria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Julius Richard Petri ranks 26. Before him are Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, H. H. Asquith, Tewfik Pasha, Terauchi Masatake, Paul Bourget, and Calamity Jane. After him are Daniel Burley Woolfall, Hipólito Yrigoyen, Christian Krohg, Victor Adler, Pietro Gasparri, and John Louis Emil Dreyer. Among people deceased in 1921, Julius Richard Petri ranks 26. Before him are William II of Württemberg, Eugen Dühring, Mykola Leontovych, `Abdu'l-Bahá, Engelbert Humperdinck, and Oscar Montelius. After him are Antoni Grabowski, Karl von Bülow, Subramania Bharati, Nikolay Zhukovsky, Živojin Mišić, and Hermann Schwarz.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Julius Richard Petri ranks 1,142 out of 7,253. Before him are Lucian Freud (1922), Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1732), Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591), Margarethe von Trotta (1942), Gotthard of Hildesheim (960), and Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg (1744). After him are Uli Hoeneß (1952), Friedrich Hund (1896), Otto Georg Thierack (1889), Johannes Althusius (1563), Alfred Naujocks (1911), and Lorenz von Stein (1815).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Julius Richard Petri ranks 21. Before him are Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), August Grisebach (1814), Erwin Neher (1944), Bert Sakmann (1942), and Walther Flemming (1843). After him are Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), Theodor Escherich (1857), Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709), Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765), and Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757).

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