1807 - 1873
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( AG-ə-see; French: [aɡasi]) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Spending his early life in Switzerland, he received a PhD at Erlangen and a medical degree in Munich. After studying with Georges Cuvier and Alexander von Humboldt in Paris, Agassiz was appointed professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Agassiz has received more than 813,513 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Louis Agassiz is the 168th most popular biologist (down from 10th in 2019), the 133rd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 93rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Swiss Biologist.
Louis Agassiz was a Swiss-born American naturalist and geologist. He is most famous for his work on glaciers and for his theory of the Ice Age.
Page Views (PV)
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
Languages Editions (L)
Effective Languages (L*)
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Among biologists, Louis Agassiz ranks 168 out of 841. Before him are Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Peter Medawar, Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann, César Milstein, and Renato Dulbecco. After him are Michael Houghton, Temple Grandin, John B. Calhoun, Hans Driesch, Wilbur Scoville, and Stephen Jay Gould.
1942 - Present
HPI: 59.10
Rank: 162
1915 - 1987
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 163
1944 - Present
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 164
1942 - Present
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 165
1927 - 2002
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 166
1914 - 2012
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 167
1807 - 1873
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 168
1949 - Present
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 169
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 170
1917 - 1995
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 171
1867 - 1941
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 172
1865 - 1942
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 173
1941 - 2002
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 174
Among people born in 1807, Louis Agassiz ranks 9. Before him are Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Jules Grévy, Princess Feodora of Leiningen, Lajos Batthyány, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Bezmiâlem Sultan. After him are Harriet Taylor Mill, Anthony Mary Claret, Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, Joseph Petzval, Alfred Vail, and Princess Cecilia of Sweden. Among people deceased in 1873, Louis Agassiz ranks 16. Before him are Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Fyodor Tyutchev, Vasil Levski, Amélie of Leuchtenberg, Johns Hopkins, and Émile Gaboriau. After him are Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, Pauline Therese of Württemberg, Sheridan Le Fanu, Viktor Hartmann, and Jean Chacornac.
1807 - 1876
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 3
1807 - 1891
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 4
1807 - 1872
HPI: 62.67
Rank: 5
1807 - 1849
HPI: 59.23
Rank: 6
1807 - 1882
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 7
1807 - 1853
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 8
1807 - 1873
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 9
1807 - 1858
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 10
1807 - 1870
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 11
1807 - 1873
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 12
1807 - 1891
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 13
1807 - 1859
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 14
1807 - 1844
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 15
1820 - 1873
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 10
1803 - 1873
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 11
1837 - 1873
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 12
1812 - 1873
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 13
1795 - 1873
HPI: 59.49
Rank: 14
1832 - 1873
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 15
1807 - 1873
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 16
1803 - 1873
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 17
1807 - 1873
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 18
1800 - 1873
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 19
1814 - 1873
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 20
1834 - 1873
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 21
1823 - 1873
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 22
Among people born in Switzerland, Louis Agassiz ranks 133 out of 876. Before him are Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Ernest Bloch (1880), Frank Martin (1890), Guy Parmelin (1959), and Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779). After him are Margareta of Romania (1949), Jaime, Duke of Madrid (1870), Max Bill (1908), Alfonsina Storni (1892), Rodolphe Töpffer (1799), and Emil Abderhalden (1877).
1773 - 1842
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 127
1878 - 1947
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 128
1880 - 1959
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 129
1890 - 1974
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 130
1959 - Present
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 131
1779 - 1869
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 132
1807 - 1873
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 133
1949 - Present
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 134
1870 - 1931
HPI: 58.53
Rank: 135
1908 - 1994
HPI: 58.48
Rank: 136
1892 - 1938
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 137
1799 - 1846
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 138
1877 - 1950
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 139
Among biologists born in Switzerland, Louis Agassiz ranks 7. Before him are Conrad Gessner (1516), Daniel Bovet (1907), Werner Arber (1929), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Gaspard Bauhin (1560), and Charles Bonnet (1720). After him are Albert von Kölliker (1817), Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Johann Bauhin (1541), Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810), and Carl Nägeli (1817).
1516 - 1565
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 1
1907 - 1992
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 2
1929 - Present
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 3
1778 - 1841
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 4
1560 - 1624
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 5
1720 - 1793
HPI: 59.85
Rank: 6
1807 - 1873
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 7
1817 - 1905
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 8
1884 - 1980
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 9
1742 - 1795
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 10
1541 - 1613
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 11
1810 - 1885
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 12
1817 - 1891
HPI: 53.84
Rank: 13