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BIOLOGIST

Jérôme Lejeune

1926 - 1994

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Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune (13 June 1926 – 3 April 1994) was a French pediatrician and geneticist, best known for his work on the link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities, most especially the link between Down Syndrome and trisomy-21 and cri du chat syndrome, amongst several others, and for his subsequent strong opposition to, in his opinion, the improper and immoral use of amniocentesis prenatal testing for eugenic purposes through selective and elective abortion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jérôme Lejeune has received more than 158,886 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jérôme Lejeune is the 205th most popular biologist, the 1,899th most popular biography from France (down from 1,827th in 2019) and the 26th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jérôme Lejeune ranks 205 out of 841. Before him are John Boyd Orr, Jeffrey C. Hall, Charles M. Rice, Henrietta Lacks, Waldemar Haffkine, and Hugo Gunckel Lüer. After him are Albert von Kölliker, Robert Gallo, Hideyo Noguchi, Adam Afzelius, David Baltimore, and Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Jérôme Lejeune ranks 120. Before him are John Derek, Raul Hilberg, Aaron Klug, Per Wahlöö, Nina Kulagina, and Gordon Scott. After him are Sergio Pininfarina, Cloris Leachman, Paul Baran, Peter Shaffer, Jürgen Moltmann, and Thorbjörn Fälldin. Among people deceased in 1994, Jérôme Lejeune ranks 84. Before him are Jean Borotra, Walter Lantz, Tengiz Abuladze, Ken Noritake, Kevin Carter, and Federica Montseny. After him are Golo Mann, Alain Cuny, Woody Strode, Donald Judd, Derek Jarman, and Harry Nilsson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jérôme Lejeune ranks 1,899 out of 6,011. Before him are Christian de Castries (1902), Marius Jacob (1879), Antoine Baumé (1728), John V, Duke of Brittany (1389), Geoffrey II, Count of Anjou (1006), and Peire Vidal (1140). After him are Claude Brasseur (1936), Louis Anquetin (1861), Jules Dupré (1811), Henri Wallon (1879), Honoré III, Prince of Monaco (1720), and André Courrèges (1923).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Jérôme Lejeune ranks 26. Before him are Armand David (1826), Aimé Bonpland (1773), Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), Antoine Béchamp (1816), Michel Adanson (1727), and Pierre André Latreille (1762). After him are Pierre Belon (1517), Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748), Félix d'Herelle (1873), Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784), and Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806).

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