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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 22,269 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Oswald Heer is the 571st most popular biologist (down from 476th in 2019), the 392nd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 312th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Swiss Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Oswald Heer ranks 571 out of 841. Before him are Tomitaro Makino, Frederic Clements, Francis Collins, Gustav Radde, Achille Richard, and Alfred Sturtevant. After him are Alfred Newton, John Murray, Georg August Goldfuss, Johann Julius Walbaum, Johan August Wahlberg, and Amotz Zahavi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Oswald Heer ranks 52. Before him are Louis Charles Delescluze, Manuel Montt, James David Forbes, Johann Heinrich Blasius, Benjamin Peirce, and Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter. After him are William B. Travis, Karl Bodmer, Santiago Derqui, Aleksey Koltsov, Nestor Kukolnik, and Nicolaas Pieneman. Among people deceased in 1883, Oswald Heer ranks 59. Before him are Heinrich von Ferstel, Louis-François-Clement Breguet, Seru Epenisa Cakobau, Alexander H. Stephens, Alexandros Koumoundouros, and Joachim Barrande. After him are Sven Nilsson, Matthew Webb, Samo Chalupka, Victor Puiseux, John Lawrence LeConte, and Jeremiah S. Black.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Oswald Heer ranks 392 out of 876. Before him are Marcel Pilet-Golaz (1889), Daniel Bernhardt (1965), Robert Ballaman (1926), Rolf Liebermann (1910), Aurèle Nicolet (1926), and Josef Munzinger (1791). After him are Alfred Newton (1829), Oliver Neuville (1973), Stefano Franscini (1796), Karl Bodmer (1809), Anita Traversi (1937), and Mansour Ojjeh (1952).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Oswald Heer ranks 17. Before him are Johann Bauhin (1541), Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810), Carl Nägeli (1817), François-Alphonse Forel (1841), Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818), and Abraham Trembley (1710). After him are Alfred Newton (1829), John Isaac Briquet (1870), Johannes Müller Argoviensis (1828), Johann Amman (1707), Heinrich Zollinger (1818), and Alexander Agassiz (1835).

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