BIOLOGIST

René Maire

1878 - 1949

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René Charles Joseph Ernest Maire (French pronunciation: [ʁəne ʃaʁl ʒozɛf ɛʁnɛst mɛʁ]; 29 May 1878, Lons-le-Saunier – 24 November 1949) was a French botanist and mycologist. His major work was the Flore de l'Afrique du Nord in 16 volumes published posthumously in 1953. He collected plants from Algeria, Morocco, France, and Mali for the herbarium of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Maire has received more than 17,775 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). René Maire is the 631st most popular biologist (down from 543rd in 2019), the 4,044th most popular biography from France (down from 3,652nd in 2019) and the 89th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, René Maire ranks 631 out of 1,097Before him are Magnus Manske, Jean Victoir Audouin, Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, Émile Duclaux, Adam Lonicer, and Carl-Gustaf Rossby. After him are Edmund Beecher Wilson, Ludwik Hirszfeld, Adrien René Franchet, Nikolay Drozdov, Volcher Coiter, and Anna Russell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, René Maire ranks 163Before him are Holcombe Ward, Charles Dvorak, Carl Sternheim, Fidel Dávila Arrondo, Viktor Nogin, and Pat McDonald. After him are Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Konstantinos Paspatis, Leopold Staff, Harry Carey, Mohammad Ali Jauhar, and Pamela Colman Smith. Among people deceased in 1949, René Maire ranks 122Before him are Sekiryo Kaneda, Uemura Shōen, Chairil Anwar, Nora Gregor, Arvo Aaltonen, and Nikolai Semashko. After him are Carl Vaugoin, Themistoklis Sofoulis, Stoyan Danev, Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, Nikolay Gamaleya, and Claes Johanson.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Maire ranks 4,044 out of 6,770Before him are Émile Duclaux (1840), Ernest Labrousse (1895), Bernard Genghini (1958), Victor Lanoux (1936), Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863), and Jean Grémillon (1902). After him are Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581), Henri Jobier (1879), Régis Wargnier (1948), Jean-Claude Mézières (1938), Françoise Rosay (1891), and André Blondel (1863).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, René Maire ranks 89Before him are Edmond de Sélys Longchamps (1813), Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856), Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (1855), Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810), Jean Victoir Audouin (1797), and Émile Duclaux (1840). After him are Adrien René Franchet (1834), Michel Félix Dunal (1789), Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835), Élie-Abel Carrière (1818), Jean René Constant Quoy (1790), and Bernard Heuvelmans (1916).