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Nils Johan Andersson

1821 - 1880

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Nils Johan Andersson (20 February 1821 Gärdserum, Småland, Sweden – 27 March 1880 Stockholm), was a Swedish botanist and traveller. The standard author abbreviation Andersson is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. He studied at Uppsala University between 1840-45 obtaining a DSc. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nils Johan Andersson has received more than 15,737 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Nils Johan Andersson is the 527th most popular biologist (down from 509th in 2019), the 527th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 485th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nils Johan Andersson ranks 527 out of 841Before him are Eduard August von Regel, George Robert Waterhouse, Carl Ludwig Koch, C. L. Gloger, Adam Lonicer, and Arthur Cronquist. After him are George C. Williams, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, Euclides da Cunha, Tsuneko Okazaki, Robert Sapolsky, and Mary Agnes Chase.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Nils Johan Andersson ranks 70Before him are Mikhail Petrashevsky, Friedrich Kiel, Leopold III, Prince of Lippe, Arthur Saint-Léon, Aleksey Pisemsky, and Giuseppe Saracco. After him are Henri Alexis Brialmont, Charles Francis Hall, Apollon Maykov, John Abbott, Janko Matúška, and Michel Carré. Among people deceased in 1880, Nils Johan Andersson ranks 44Before him are Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, Edmond Albius, Manuel Montt, Nikolay Zinin, James Craig Watson, and Benjamin Peirce. After him are Izmail Sreznevsky, Napoléon Henri Reber, Karl von Holtei, William Hallowes Miller, Christian August Friedrich Peters, and Martin Gropius.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Nils Johan Andersson ranks 527 out of 1,612Before him are Tommy Körberg (1948), Karl Staaff (1860), Björn Skifs (1947), Carola Häggkvist (1966), Bo Johansson (1942), and Fredrik von Otter (1833). After him are Torgny Lindgren (1938), Eric Ericson (1918), Karl Staaf (1881), Ylva Johansson (1964), Carl Fredrik Hill (1849), and Peter Haber (1952).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Nils Johan Andersson ranks 24Before him are Svante Pääbo (1955), Elisabeth Christina von Linné (1743), Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1898), Jacob Georg Agardh (1813), Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), and Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801). After him are Karl Rudolphi (1771), Charles De Geer (1720), Carl Alexander Clerck (1710), Johan Andreas Murray (1740), Jacob Bjerknes (1897), and Carl Skottsberg (1880).