BIOLOGIST

Oswald Heer

1809 - 1883

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Oswald Heer (or Oswald von Heer) (31 August 1809 – 27 September 1883), Swiss geologist and naturalist, was born at Niederuzwil in Canton of St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oswald Heer has received more than 23,470 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Oswald Heer is the 540th most popular biologist (up from 570th in 2019), the 382nd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 390th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Swiss Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Oswald Heer ranks 540 out of 1,097. Before him are Craig Mello, William Curtis, Janaki Ammal, Franz Meyen, Marie Jules César Savigny, and Paul Bert. After him are Albrecht Thaer, Johann Friedrich Meckel, Alfred Newton, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, and Harald Sverdrup.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Oswald Heer ranks 48. Before him are Constantin von Alvensleben, Matsumura Sōkon, Robert Cornelius, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, William B. Travis, and Cyrus McCormick. After him are Louis Charles Delescluze, Rutherford Alcock, Manuel Montt, Johann Heinrich Blasius, Benjamin Peirce, and Theodor Benfey. Among people deceased in 1883, Oswald Heer ranks 55. Before him are Yevfimiy Putyatin, Butrus al-Bustani, Robert Volkmann, Francesco de Sanctis, Mahmud Nedim Pasha, and Heinrich von Ferstel. After him are Alexander H. Stephens, Sven Nilsson, Joachim Barrande, Edward Sabine, John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, and Alexandros Koumoundouros.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Oswald Heer ranks 382 out of 1,015. Before him are Erhard Loretan (1959), Karin Keller-Sutter (1963), Tariq Ramadan (1962), Adolf Ogi (1942), Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687), and Philippe Jaccottet (1925). After him are Emil Frey (1838), Archduchess Charlotte of Austria (1921), Didier Queloz (1966), Alfred Newton (1829), Werner Bischof (1916), and Jules Gilliéron (1854).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Oswald Heer ranks 20. Before him are François-Alphonse Forel (1841), Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810), Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818), Carl Meissner (1800), Johann Bauhin (1541), and Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (1829). After him are Alfred Newton (1829), Johann Amman (1707), John Isaac Briquet (1870), Émil Goeldi (1859), Heinrich Zollinger (1818), and Johannes Müller Argoviensis (1828).

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