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Palisot de Beauvois

1752 - 1820

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Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot, Baron de Beauvois (27 July 1752, in Arras – 21 January 1820, in Paris) was a French naturalist and zoologist. Palisot collected insects in Oware, Benin, Saint Domingue, and the United States, from 1786 to 1797. Trained as a botanist, Palisot published a significant entomological paper entitled, "Insectes Receuillis en Afrique et en Amerique". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Palisot de Beauvois has received more than 32,553 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Palisot de Beauvois is the 839th most popular biologist (down from 764th in 2019), the 4,705th most popular biography from France (down from 4,238th in 2019) and the 121st most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Palisot de Beauvois ranks 839 out of 1,097. Before him are Eduard von Martens, Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt, Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet, Zinaida Yermolyeva, Judah Folkman, and Edmund Reitter. After him are Heinrich Moritz Willkomm, Casimir de Candolle, Mary Katharine Brandegee, Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Gustav Lindau, and William John Burchell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, Palisot de Beauvois ranks 34. Before him are Maurice d'Elbée, François Isaac de Rivaz, Albrecht Thaer, Antonio Scarpa, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, and Barnaba Oriani. After him are Gouverneur Morris, George Rogers Clark, John Graves Simcoe, and Philip Freneau. Among people deceased in 1820, Palisot de Beauvois ranks 40. Before him are Louise Caroline of Hochberg, Nicolaus Michael Oppel, Charles Blagden, Stephen Decatur, Claudine Picardet, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe. After him are Levi Lincoln Sr., William Wyatt Bibb, William Ellery, and Henry Grattan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Palisot de Beauvois ranks 4,705 out of 6,770. Before him are Denys de La Patellière (1921), Marcellin Boule (1861), Jeanne Dumée (1660), Christian de Chalonge (1937), José Garcia (1966), and Roland Dorgelès (1885). After him are Raynald Denoueix (1948), Claude Renoir (1913), George Fitzmaurice (1885), Dayot Upamecano (1998), Albert Champoudry (1880), and Louise du Pierry (1746).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Palisot de Beauvois ranks 121. Before him are Jean Baptiste Boisduval (1799), Étienne Pierre Ventenat (1757), Nicaise Auguste Desvaux (1784), Gaston Bonnier (1853), Jules Pierre Rambur (1801), and Paul Henri Lecomte (1856). After him are Édouard Ménétries (1802), Pierre Chambon (1931), Charles Frédéric Girard (1822), Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (1808), Elizabeth F. Neufeld (1928), and Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (1930).

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