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Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin

1727 - 1817

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Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin (16 February 1727 – 26 October 1817) was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin has received more than 70,606 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin is the 118th most popular biologist (up from 132nd in 2019), the 137th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 165th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Dutch Biologist.

Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin is most famous for his work on plant physiology. He is credited with discovering the process of photosynthesis.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin ranks 118 out of 841Before him are Sydney Brenner, John Ray, Giovanni Sartori, Archibald Hill, Oliver Smithies, and William Bateson. After him are Ferdinand Cohn, Norman Borlaug, Har Gobind Khorana, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Rudolf Weigl, and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1727, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin ranks 8Before him are Thomas Gainsborough, Empress Xiaoyichun, Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, Louise Élisabeth of France, Jean-Georges Noverre, and Henriette of France. After him are Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Luis of Spain, Count of Chinchón, Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Michel Adanson, Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, and Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau. Among people deceased in 1817, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin ranks 11Before him are Charles Messier, Karađorđe, Marie Walewska, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, and Princess Charlotte of Wales. After him are Theroigne de Mericourt, William Bligh, Fyodor Ushakov, Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, Nakşidil Sultan, and Abraham Gottlob Werner.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin ranks 137 out of 1,427Before him are Bert van Marwijk (1952), Claus Sluter (1340), Maarten van Heemskerck (1498), Wim Duisenberg (1935), Wim Jansen (1946), and Harry Mulisch (1927). After him are Jeroen Krabbé (1944), Willem Schouten (1567), Ruud Krol (1949), Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778), Mariska Veres (1947), and Zacharias Janssen (1585).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Netherlands

Among biologists born in Netherlands, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin ranks 7Before him are Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632), Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907), Hugo de Vries (1848), Herman Boerhaave (1668), Jan Swammerdam (1637), and Martinus Beijerinck (1851). After him are Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778), Pieter Boddaert (1730), Nicolaas Laurens Burman (1734), George Clifford III (1685), Pieter Bleeker (1819), and Johannes Burman (1707).