BIOLOGIST

Martinus Beijerinck

1851 - 1931

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Martinus Willem Beijerinck (Dutch pronunciation: [mɑrˈtinʏs ˈʋɪləm ˈbɛiərɪŋk], 16 March 1851 – 1 January 1931) was a Dutch microbiologist and botanist who was one of the founders of virology and environmental microbiology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martinus Beijerinck has received more than 342,039 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Martinus Beijerinck is the 123rd most popular biologist (down from 101st in 2019), the 147th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 127th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Dutch Biologist.

Martinus Beijerinck is most famous for his discovery of the virus causing tobacco mosaic disease.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Martinus Beijerinck ranks 123 out of 1,097. Before him are Edward B. Lewis, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Sydney Brenner, Har Gobind Khorana, Macfarlane Burnet, and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. After him are Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Othenio Abel, Charles Scott Sherrington, August Grisebach, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, and Gaspard Bauhin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Martinus Beijerinck ranks 15. Before him are Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Georg Jellinek, Peder Severin Krøyer, Léon Bourgeois, Torakusu Yamaha, and Isabella, Princess of Asturias. After him are Adolf von Harnack, Arne Garborg, Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Friedrich von Wieser, Vincent d'Indy, and Asa Griggs Candler. Among people deceased in 1931, Martinus Beijerinck ranks 27. Before him are Nathan Söderblom, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Eugène Ysaÿe, Isabella, Princess of Asturias, Carin Göring, and Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta. After him are Kitasato Shibasaburō, Wilhelm von Gloeden, André Michelin, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, and Thomas Lipton.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Martinus Beijerinck ranks 147 out of 1,646. Before him are Jan Swammerdam (1637), Ary Scheffer (1795), Meindert Hobbema (1638), Johnny Rep (1951), Gaius Julius Civilis (25), and Fanny Blankers-Koen (1918). After him are René van de Kerkhof (1951), William II, Duke of Bavaria (1365), Abraham Bloemaert (1566), Maarten van Heemskerck (1498), Ruud Lubbers (1939), and Wim Kok (1938).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Netherlands

Among biologists born in Netherlands, Martinus Beijerinck ranks 6. Before him are Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632), Hugo de Vries (1848), Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907), Herman Boerhaave (1668), and Jan Swammerdam (1637). After him are Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727), Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778), Pieter Boddaert (1730), Nicolaas Laurens Burman (1734), Pieter Bleeker (1819), and Johannes Burman (1707).

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