BIOLOGIST

Paul Gervais

1816 - 1879

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Paul Gervais full name François Louis Paul Gervais (26 September 1816 – 10 February 1879) was a French palaeontologist and entomologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Gervais has received more than 58,483 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Gervais is the 516th most popular biologist (up from 662nd in 2019), the 3,631st most popular biography from France (up from 4,013th in 2019) and the 70th most popular French Biologist.

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  • 51.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Paul Gervais ranks 516 out of 1,097. Before him are Christian von Steven, John Murray, Johann Julius Walbaum, Daniel Giraud Elliot, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, and Ivan Martinov. After him are Paul Nurse, Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, Eugène Simon, Francisco Hernández de Toledo, Arthur Cronquist, and Wilhelm Hofmeister.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, Paul Gervais ranks 36. Before him are William Gull, Emanuel Leutze, Jan Arnošt Smoler, Moritz Steinschneider, Wazir Akbar Khan, and Jubal Early. After him are Dmitry Milyutin, Henri Dupuy de Lôme, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, August Wilhelm Ambros, Stephen Allen Benson, and Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt. Among people deceased in 1879, Paul Gervais ranks 40. Before him are Jeanne Jugan, Miguel Grau Seminario, Joseph Poelaert, Nikolai Zaremba, Duke William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Anthony Panizzi. After him are Aleksandr Baryatinsky, Joseph Hooker, Peter Michal Bohúň, Immanuel Hermann Fichte, Lyuben Karavelov, and Rowland Hill.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Gervais ranks 3,631 out of 6,770. Before him are Georges Rayet (1839), Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842), Noël Martin Joseph de Necker (1730), Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester (1090), Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746), and Marcel Prévost (1862). After him are Marc Levy (1961), Cécilia Attias (1957), Gérard Lenorman (1945), Henri Regnault (1843), Eugène Simon (1848), and Jacques Soustelle (1912).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Paul Gervais ranks 70. Before him are Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776), Jules Émile Planchon (1823), Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem (1839), Achille Valenciennes (1794), Sébastien Vaillant (1669), and Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746). After him are Eugène Simon (1848), Marie Jules César Savigny (1777), Paul Bert (1833), Jean-Pierre Changeux (1936), Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778), and Augustin Saint-Hilaire (1779).

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