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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michel Adanson has received more than 104,511 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Michel Adanson is the 195th most popular biologist (down from 135th in 2019), the 1,779th most popular biography from France (down from 1,361st in 2019) and the 24th 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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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Michel Adanson ranks 195 out of 841. Before him are Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Humberto Maturana, Salim Ali, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, and Erik Pontoppidan. After him are Howard Martin Temin, Carl Gustav Carus, Pierre André Latreille, John Boyd Orr, Jeffrey C. Hall, and Charles M. Rice.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1727, Michel Adanson ranks 12. Before him are Jean-Georges Noverre, Henriette of France, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Luis of Spain, Count of Chinchón, and Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena. After him are Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Jean-André Deluc, Tommaso Traetta, Pasquale Anfossi, and Johann Gottlieb Goldberg. Among people deceased in 1806, Michel Adanson ranks 22. Before him are Mungo Park, Nicolas Leblanc, Johann Christoph Adelung, Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, and Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia. After him are Nicolas-Edme Rétif, Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, Vicente Martín y Soler, Shah Alam II, Pavel Tsitsianov, and George Stubbs.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel Adanson ranks 1,779 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean de Meun (1240), Charles-André van Loo (1705), Louise Abbéma (1853), Eugène Tisserant (1884), Étienne Balibar (1942), and John II, Duke of Lorraine (1425). After him are Henry Corbin (1903), Nicolas Catinat (1637), Jean-Yves Le Drian (1947), François Périer (1919), Pierre Varignon (1654), and Madame d'Aulnoy (1651).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Michel Adanson ranks 24. Before him are Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), Armand David (1826), Aimé Bonpland (1773), Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), and Antoine Béchamp (1816). After him are Pierre André Latreille (1762), Jérôme Lejeune (1926), Pierre Belon (1517), Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748), and Félix d'Herelle (1873).

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