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Rolf Singer

1906 - 1994

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Rolf Singer (June 23, 1906 – January 18, 1994) was a German mycologist and taxonomist of gilled mushrooms (agarics). He wrote the book "The Agaricales in Modern Taxonomy". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rolf Singer has received more than 55,250 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Rolf Singer is the 615th most popular biologist (up from 646th in 2019), the 4,130th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,013th in 2019) and the 137th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Rolf Singer ranks 615 out of 1,097. Before him are James Francis Stephens, Richard Goldschmidt, George Clifford III, Alfred Sturtevant, Ray Lankester, and Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper. After him are Georg Dionysius Ehret, Emmanuel Drake del Castillo, Karl Rudolphi, George C. Williams, Nils Johan Andersson, and Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Rolf Singer ranks 237. Before him are Knut Kroon, Alexander Rou, Herbert Wehner, Alexander Gelfond, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Hermione Baddeley. After him are Édouard Artigas, Eitel Cantoni, Bruno de Finetti, Arturo Uslar Pietri, René David, and Corneliu Baba. Among people deceased in 1994, Rolf Singer ranks 200. Before him are Grigol Abashidze, Lili Damita, Lilia Skala, Norman Read, Robert Rozhdestvensky, and Luis Vargas Peña. After him are Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Bruno Pezzey, Arnold Badjou, Nicole Brown Simpson, Enrico Maria Salerno, and Paul Xuereb.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rolf Singer ranks 4,130 out of 7,253. Before him are Erich Ollenhauer (1901), Rudolf Wolters (1903), Helmuth Rilling (1933), Heinz Stuy (1945), Alexius Frederick Christian, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg (1767), and George William, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1591). After him are Woldemar, Prince of Lippe (1824), Princess Sophie Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1737), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708), Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line (1832), Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg (1584), and Princess Frederica of Hanover (1848).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Rolf Singer ranks 137. Before him are Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817), Erwin Stresemann (1889), Carl Chun (1852), Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798), Ludwig Diels (1874), and Richard Goldschmidt (1878). After him are Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708), Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852), Magnus Manske (1974), Adam Lonicer (1528), Karl Hugo Strunz (1910), and Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter (1733).

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