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BIOLOGIST

René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur

1683 - 1757

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René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (French: [ʁeomyʁ]; 28 February 1683, La Rochelle – 17 October 1757, Saint-Julien-du-Terroux) was a French entomologist and writer who contributed to many different fields, especially the study of insects. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur has received more than 133,412 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur is the 44th most popular biologist (down from 43rd in 2019), the 626th most popular biography from France (up from 642nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Biologist.

René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur is most famous for his work in the field of thermometry. He invented the mercury thermometer and the alcohol thermometer.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur ranks 44 out of 841. Before him are Christian de Duve, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Ada Yonath, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Richard Owen, and Nikolaas Tinbergen. After him are August Weismann, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Karl Ernst von Baer, Robert Edwards, Hans Spemann, and Peter Simon Pallas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1683, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur ranks 5. Before him are Philip V of Spain, Jean-Philippe Rameau, George II of Great Britain, and Caroline of Ansbach. After him are Maria Anna of Austria, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, 6th Dalai Lama, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Christoph Graupner, Gottfried Silbermann, and Christian Ludwig II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1757, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur ranks 3. Before him are Domenico Scarlatti and Osman III. After him are Maria Josepha of Austria, Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Johann Stamitz, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, Rosalba Carriera, Robert-François Damiens, Siraj ud-Daulah, 7th Dalai Lama, and David Hartley.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur ranks 626 out of 6,011. Before him are Hugh the Great (898), Léonin (1135), Yolande de Polastron (1749), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Juliette Gréco (1927), and Émilie du Châtelet (1706). After him are Camille Flammarion (1842), Catherine of Valois (1401), François Mansart (1598), Jacques Maritain (1882), Maurice Béjart (1927), and Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur ranks 7. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), Luc Montagnier (1932), Georges Cuvier (1769), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707), Charles Richet (1850), and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947). After him are Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), François Jacob (1920), Roger Guillemin (1924), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772).

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