1810 - 1885
Pierre Edmond Boissier (25 May 1810 Geneva – 25 September 1885 Valeyres-sous-Rances) was a Swiss prominent botanist, explorer and mathematician. He was the son of Jacques Boissier (1784-1857) and Caroline Butini (1786-1836), daughter of Pierre Butini (1759-1838) a well-known physician and naturalist from Geneva. With his sister, Valérie Boissier (1813-1894), he received a strict education with lessons delivered in Italian and Latin. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Edmond Boissier has received more than 27,025 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Pierre Edmond Boissier is the 285th most popular biologist (up from 294th in 2019), the 226th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 223rd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Swiss Biologist.
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Among biologists, Pierre Edmond Boissier ranks 285 out of 841. Before him are Alexander von Middendorff, Marie Stopes, Johann Bauhin, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, and Vladimir Demikhov. After him are Wilhelm Peters, Nikolai Severtzov, John Hughlings Jackson, Othenio Abel, René Louiche Desfontaines, and Josif Pančić.
1815 - 1894
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 279
1880 - 1958
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 280
1541 - 1613
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 281
1794 - 1868
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 282
1802 - 1879
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 283
1916 - 1998
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 284
1810 - 1885
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 285
1815 - 1883
HPI: 54.23
Rank: 286
1827 - 1885
HPI: 54.21
Rank: 287
1835 - 1911
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 288
1875 - 1946
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 289
1750 - 1833
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 290
1814 - 1888
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 291
Among people born in 1810, Pierre Edmond Boissier ranks 34. Before him are Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre, Jules Perrot, Ferenc Erkel, Howard Staunton, Ole Bull, and Margaret Fuller. After him are Karel Hynek Mácha, Christen Købke, Hans Christian Lumbye, Wilhelm, Duke of Urach, Julian Fontana, and Peter Andreas Munch. Among people deceased in 1885, Pierre Edmond Boissier ranks 32. Before him are George B. McClellan, Nikolay Danilevsky, Narcís Monturiol, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, and Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. After him are Nikolai Severtzov, Franz Abt, Thomas A. Hendricks, Nikolay Kostomarov, Charles Rogier, and Aga Khan II.
1810 - 1885
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 28
1810 - 1892
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 29
1810 - 1893
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 30
1810 - 1874
HPI: 55.09
Rank: 31
1810 - 1880
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 32
1810 - 1850
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 33
1810 - 1885
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 34
1810 - 1836
HPI: 54.22
Rank: 35
1810 - 1848
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 36
1810 - 1874
HPI: 53.85
Rank: 37
1810 - 1869
HPI: 53.84
Rank: 38
1810 - 1869
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 39
1810 - 1863
HPI: 53.49
Rank: 40
1826 - 1885
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 26
1822 - 1885
HPI: 54.88
Rank: 27
1819 - 1885
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 28
1809 - 1885
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 29
1809 - 1885
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 30
1814 - 1885
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 31
1810 - 1885
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 32
1827 - 1885
HPI: 54.21
Rank: 33
1819 - 1885
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 34
1819 - 1885
HPI: 53.88
Rank: 35
1817 - 1885
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 36
1800 - 1885
HPI: 53.23
Rank: 37
1830 - 1885
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 38
Among people born in Switzerland, Pierre Edmond Boissier ranks 226 out of 876. Before him are Louis of Cyprus (1436), Eugène Grasset (1845), Jean-André Deluc (1727), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Pierre Jeanneret (1896), and Johann Bauhin (1541). After him are Johann Peter Hebel (1760), Andy Hug (1964), Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825), Anton Graff (1736), Matilda of Habsburg (1253), and Maurice Bavaud (1916).
1436 - 1482
HPI: 54.41
Rank: 220
1845 - 1917
HPI: 54.40
Rank: 221
1727 - 1817
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 222
1767 - 1845
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 223
1896 - 1967
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 224
1541 - 1613
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 225
1810 - 1885
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 226
1760 - 1826
HPI: 54.23
Rank: 227
1964 - 2000
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 228
1825 - 1898
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 229
1736 - 1813
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 230
1253 - 1304
HPI: 54.08
Rank: 231
1916 - 1941
HPI: 53.98
Rank: 232
Among biologists born in Switzerland, Pierre Edmond Boissier ranks 12. Before him are Charles Bonnet (1720), Louis Agassiz (1807), Albert von Kölliker (1817), Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), and Johann Bauhin (1541). After him are Carl Nägeli (1817), François-Alphonse Forel (1841), Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818), Abraham Trembley (1710), Oswald Heer (1809), and Alfred Newton (1829).
1720 - 1793
HPI: 59.85
Rank: 6
1807 - 1873
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 7
1817 - 1905
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 8
1884 - 1980
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 9
1742 - 1795
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 10
1541 - 1613
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 11
1810 - 1885
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 12
1817 - 1891
HPI: 53.84
Rank: 13
1841 - 1912
HPI: 52.98
Rank: 14
1818 - 1889
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 15
1710 - 1784
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 16
1809 - 1883
HPI: 48.54
Rank: 17
1829 - 1907
HPI: 48.53
Rank: 18