BIOLOGIST

Michel Adanson

1727 - 1806

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Michel Adanson (7 April 1727 – 3 August 1806) was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist who traveled to Senegal to study flora and fauna. He proposed a "natural system" of taxonomy distinct from the binomial system forwarded by Linnaeus. The standard author abbreviation Adans. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michel Adanson has received more than 111,154 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Michel Adanson is the 160th most popular biologist (up from 194th in 2019), the 1,374th most popular biography from France (up from 1,773rd in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Biologist.

Michel Adanson is most famous for his work in taxonomy. He was the first person to classify plants into families and genera.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Michel Adanson ranks 160 out of 1,097. Before him are George Davis Snell, Leland H. Hartwell, Norman Borlaug, Salvador Luria, Olaus Rudbeck, and Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber. After him are Charles Bonnet, Joshua Lederberg, Susumu Tonegawa, Robert Whittaker, Johan Christian Fabricius, and Renato Dulbecco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1727, Michel Adanson ranks 9. Before him are Thomas Gainsborough, Henriette of France, Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, Jean-Georges Noverre, Empress Xiaoyichun, and Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. After him are Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Luis of Spain, Count of Chinchón, Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, and Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena. Among people deceased in 1806, Michel Adanson ranks 20. Before him are Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Nicolas Leblanc, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily. After him are Mungo Park, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, Pavel Tsitsianov, Shah Alam II, and Vicente Martín y Soler.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel Adanson ranks 1,374 out of 6,770. Before him are Roger Caillois (1913), Pierre Mauroy (1928), Victor Cousin (1792), Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838), Jacqueline Boyer (1941), and Léo Taxil (1854). After him are Dominique Jean Larrey (1766), Luis Federico Leloir (1906), Eva Green (1980), Francis II, Duke of Brittany (1435), Arbogast (340), and Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours (1814).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Michel Adanson ranks 21. Before him are Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), Jean Dausset (1916), Aimé Bonpland (1773), Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), and Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968). After him are Pierre André Latreille (1762), Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), Armand David (1826), Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723), Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), and Pierre Belon (1517).

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