BIOLOGIST

Sergei Winogradsky

1856 - 1953

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Sergei Nikolaevich Winogradsky (Russian: Сергей Николаевич Виноградский; Ukrainian: Сергій Миколайович Виноградський; 13 September [O.S. 1 September] 1856, Kyiv – 24 February 1953, Brie-Comte-Robert), also published under the name Sergius Winogradsky, was a Ukrainian and Russian microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist who pioneered the cycle-of-life concept. Winogradsky discovered the first known form of lithotrophy during his research with Beggiatoa in 1887. He reported that Beggiatoa oxidized hydrogen sulfide (H2S) as an energy source and formed intracellular sulfur droplets. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergei Winogradsky has received more than 196,572 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Sergei Winogradsky is the 259th most popular biologist (down from 237th in 2019), the 278th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 272nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Ukrainian Biologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Sergei Winogradsky ranks 259 out of 1,097. Before him are Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Eduard Rüppell, Michael Rosbash, and Carol W. Greider. After him are Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, James Bond, John Lindley, Henrietta Lacks, and Erik Pontoppidan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Sergei Winogradsky ranks 47. Before him are Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Carl David Tolmé Runge, Matthias Zurbriggen, Maurycy Gottlieb, Enrico Ferri, and Christian Sinding. After him are Ahad Ha'am, Stevan Mokranjac, Hermann von François, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, Georg von der Marwitz, and Karl Krumbacher. Among people deceased in 1953, Sergei Winogradsky ranks 54. Before him are Bill Tilden, Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, Stanisław Wojciechowski, Jacques Thibaud, Albert Gleizes, and Francesco Saverio Nitti. After him are René Fonck, Chōjun Miyagi, Julian Tuwim, Prince Oscar Bernadotte, Margaret Bondfield, and Albert Austin.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Sergei Winogradsky ranks 278 out of 1,365. Before him are Joseph Kobzon (1937), Solomiya Krushelnytska (1872), Alexander Georg von Bunge (1803), Nikolai Kapustin (1937), Zbigniew Herbert (1924), and Denys Shmyhal (1975). After him are Stephen Timoshenko (1878), Emanuel Ringelblum (1900), Rinat Akhmetov (1966), Efim Bogoljubov (1889), Efim Geller (1925), and Boris Lyatoshinsky (1894).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Ukraine

Among biologists born in Ukraine, Sergei Winogradsky ranks 6. Before him are Élie Metchnikoff (1845), Trofim Lysenko (1898), Waldemar Haffkine (1860), Ludwik Fleck (1896), and Alexander Georg von Bunge (1803). After him are Michał Boym (1614), Ivan Martinov (1771), and Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim (1888).

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