BIOLOGIST

René Lesson

1794 - 1849

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René Primevère Lesson (20 March 1794 – 28 April 1849) was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Lesson has received more than 60,505 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. René Lesson is the 374th most popular biologist (down from 263rd in 2019), the 2,966th most popular biography from France (down from 2,372nd in 2019) and the 48th most popular French Biologist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, René Lesson ranks 374 out of 1,097. Before him are Georg Joseph Kamel, Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, Eugen Fischer, Daniel Solander, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, and Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti. After him are Brian Kobilka, John Stevens Henslow, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, Theodor Boveri, Nicolaas Laurens Burman, and Joy Adamson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, René Lesson ranks 27. Before him are Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Achille Richard, Jean Pierre Flourens, Jacques Collin de Plancy, and Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg. After him are Jacques Babinet, Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Carl Borivoj Presl, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, and Konstantin Thon. Among people deceased in 1849, René Lesson ranks 39. Before him are William Etty, Quatremère de Quincy, Angelica Catalani, Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este, Jacques-Laurent Agasse, and Conradin Kreutzer. After him are Dolley Madison, Duchess Maria Elisabeth in Bavaria, Pierre François Verhulst, Carlo Rossi, Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor, and Pavel Chichagov.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Lesson ranks 2,966 out of 6,770. Before him are Wilhelm Falley (1897), Auguste Clésinger (1814), Marc Seguin (1786), Louis Le Chatelier (1815), Champfleury (1821), and N'Golo Kanté (1991). After him are Nicolas Coustou (1658), Paul Émile Appell (1855), Jean Fernel (1497), André Salmon (1881), Jacques Babinet (1794), and Adrien Maurice de Noailles (1678).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, René Lesson ranks 48. Before him are Philibert Commerson (1727), Auguste Chevalier (1873), Louis Claude Richard (1754), Pierre Magnol (1638), Antoine de Jussieu (1686), and Achille Richard (1794). After him are Félix Vicq-d'Azyr (1748), Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748), Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797), Guillaume Rondelet (1507), Lucien Quélet (1832), and Frédéric Cuvier (1773).

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