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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 54,801 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Gervais is the 663rd most popular biologist (down from 447th in 2019), the 4,029th most popular biography from France (down from 3,052nd in 2019) and the 96th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Paul Gervais ranks 663 out of 841Before him are Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, Charlotte Auerbach, Théodore Monod, Alexei Fedchenko, Georg Dionysius Ehret, and Johan Andreas Murray. After him are Joseph Leidy, Andrew Smith, Heinrich Zollinger, Edward Newton, Eduard Oscar Schmidt, and Alfred G. Knudson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, Paul Gervais ranks 44Before him are Catherine Wolfe Bruce, Richard Leach Maddox, Jubal Early, Dimitrie Ghica, Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, and Grace Aguilar. After him are Stephen Allen Benson, C. A. Rosetti, William Sterndale Bennett, Lajos Haynald, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, and Johan Sverdrup. Among people deceased in 1879, Paul Gervais ranks 52Before him are Immanuel Hermann Fichte, William Lloyd Garrison, Edward Blore, Jean Baptiste Boisduval, Peter Arnold Heise, and John Bell Hood. After him are Marguerite Bays, László Paál, Jakob Stämpfli, Henry Charles Carey, Epameinondas Deligeorgis, and Juan Antonio Pezet.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Gervais ranks 4,029 out of 6,011Before him are Eugène Martin (1915), Michel Boisrond (1921), Pierre-Louis Lions (1956), Jean-François Stévenin (1944), Maïwenn (1976), and Virginie Despentes (1969). After him are Philippe Chatrier (1926), Émile Lemoine (1840), Roger Blin (1907), François Sudre (1787), Jacques Rozier (1926), and Vincent Candela (1973).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Paul Gervais ranks 96Before him are Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759), Adrien René Franchet (1834), Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (1855), Gabriel Bibron (1805), Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810), and Théodore Monod (1902). After him are Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800), Émile Oustalet (1844), Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778), Jacques Miller (1931), Antoine Risso (1777), and Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet (1723).