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BIOLOGIST

Philibert Commerson

1727 - 1773

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Philibert Commerson (French: [filibɛʁ kɔmɛʁsɔ̃]; 18 November 1727 – 14 March 1773), sometimes spelled Commerçon by contemporaries, was a French naturalist, best known for accompanying Louis Antoine de Bougainville on his voyage of circumnavigation in 1766–1769. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philibert Commerson has received more than 54,871 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Philibert Commerson is the 327th most popular biologist (down from 158th in 2019), the 2,769th most popular biography from France (down from 1,515th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Philibert Commerson ranks 327 out of 841. Before him are Guillaume Rondelet, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, Ernst Schäfer, Roderick Murchison, Nehemiah Grew, and Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link. After him are Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, Carl Ludwig Blume, Alexander von Nordmann, Ian Wilmut, François-Alphonse Forel, and Takenoshin Nakai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1727, Philibert Commerson ranks 20. Before him are Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Jean-André Deluc, Tommaso Traetta, Pasquale Anfossi, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, and Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck. After him are James Wolfe, Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel, Ivan Shuvalov, Horatio Gates, and Peter Woulfe. Among people deceased in 1773, Philibert Commerson ranks 10. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Ali Bey al-Kabir, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine, Luigi Vanvitelli, and Paisius of Hilendar. After him are Anton Janša, Alexis Piron, Stanisław Konarski, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, and George Edwards.

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In France

Among people born in France, Philibert Commerson ranks 2,769 out of 6,011. Before him are Oscar Cullmann (1902), Georges Leclanché (1836), Alan IV, Duke of Brittany (1060), Mélanie Bonis (1858), Valérie Pécresse (1967), and Edgar Quinet (1803). After him are Guillaume Canet (1973), Saint Faith (290), Jean Carmet (1920), Alain Corneau (1943), Charles Nungesser (1892), and Odo I, Count of Blois (950).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Philibert Commerson ranks 42. Before him are Alain Bombard (1924), Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801), René Louiche Desfontaines (1750), Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), Charles Plumier (1646), and Guillaume Rondelet (1507). After him are Charles Chamberland (1851), Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723), Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (1770), Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756), Lucien Quélet (1832), and Antoine de Jussieu (1686).

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