BIOLOGIST

Mikhail Tsvet

1872 - 1919

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Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet, also spelt Tsvett, Tswett, Tswet, Zwet, and Cvet (Russian: Михаил Семёнович Цвет; 14 May 1872 – 26 June 1919) was a Russian-Italian botanist who invented chromatography. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Tsvet has received more than 144,065 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Mikhail Tsvet is the 207th most popular biologist (down from 154th in 2019), the 1,648th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,322nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Mikhail Tsvet ranks 207 out of 1,097Before him are Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Oldfield Thomas, Adam Afzelius, Waldemar Haffkine, J. B. S. Haldane, and Pierre Belon. After him are Friedrich Parrot, Johann Reinhold Forster, Thomas Browne, Wilbur Scoville, Tomitaro Makino, and Joseph Banks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Mikhail Tsvet ranks 50Before him are Kijūrō Shidehara, Ottokar Czernin, Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria, Vladimir Arsenyev, Mathilde Kschessinska, and Princess Margaret of Prussia. After him are Pío Baroja, Otto Braun, Sidónio Pais, Carlo Sforza, Albert Sarraut, and Anton Korošec. Among people deceased in 1919, Mikhail Tsvet ranks 43Before him are Edward Charles Pickering, Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Endre Ady, Vera Zasulich, Hugo Riemann, and Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia. After him are Vasily Chapayev, Gustav Landauer, Peter Altenberg, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia, Leo Jogiches, and Adolf Hurwitz.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Mikhail Tsvet ranks 1,648 out of 5,161Before him are Matteo Carcassi (1792), Asconius Pedianus (-9), Gerolama Orsini (1503), Frederick V, Duke of Swabia (1164), Lamberto Dini (1931), and Giovannino Guareschi (1908). After him are Cesare Ripa (1555), Lucrezia de' Medici (1470), Adriano Banchieri (1568), Corax of Syracuse (-500), Marcia (200), and Cicero Minor (-65).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Italy

Among biologists born in Italy, Mikhail Tsvet ranks 9Before him are Gabriele Falloppio (1523), Giovanni Sartori (1924), Mario Capecchi (1937), Salvador Luria (1912), Renato Dulbecco (1914), and Giuseppe Acerbi (1773). After him are Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922), Carlo Allioni (1728), Odoardo Beccari (1843), Pier Andrea Saccardo (1845), Tommaso Salvadori (1835), and Carlo Luigi Spegazzini (1858).