BIOLOGIST

Theodor Boveri

1862 - 1915

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Theodor Heinrich Boveri (12 October 1862 – 15 October 1915) was a German zoologist, comparative anatomist and co-founder of modern cytology. He was notable for the first hypothesis regarding cellular processes that cause cancer, and for describing chromatin diminution in nematodes. His brother was industrialist Walter Boveri. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theodor Boveri has received more than 125,165 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Theodor Boveri is the 378th most popular biologist (down from 305th in 2019), the 2,893rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,476th in 2019) and the 69th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Theodor Boveri ranks 378 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, René Lesson, Brian Kobilka, John Stevens Henslow, and Franz Xaver von Wulfen. After him are Nicolaas Laurens Burman, Joy Adamson, Antonio José Cavanilles, Ludwig Reichenbach, Samuel Frederick Gray, and Roderick Murchison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Theodor Boveri ranks 74. Before him are Alimardan Topchubashov, Hugo Erdmann, Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Wil van Gogh, Mykola Pymonenko, and Johanna van Gogh-Bonger. After him are Friedrich Meinecke, William Wallace Campbell, Alexander Guchkov, Robert Ford, Fatma Aliye Topuz, and Charles Evans Hughes. Among people deceased in 1915, Theodor Boveri ranks 57. Before him are Johann Joseph Abert, Józef Brandt, Walter Crane, Béla Kiss, Gabriel von Max, and Hendrik Willem Mesdag. After him are Inoue Kaoru, Hugo Schiff, Daniel Varoujan, Joe Hill, Adolphe Pégoud, and Arthur Hughes.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Theodor Boveri ranks 2,893 out of 7,253. Before him are Carl, Duke of Württemberg (1936), Uli Edel (1947), Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1794), Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau (1740), Gerhard Schröder (1910), and Mina Witkojc (1893). After him are Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Coburg (1648), Hugo Preuß (1860), Christiane Kubrick (1932), Heinrich Kiepert (1818), Wolfgang Preiss (1910), and Adolf Ziegler (1892).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Theodor Boveri ranks 69. Before him are Fritz Müller (1822), Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787), Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665), Karl Koch (1809), Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744), and Eugen Fischer (1874). After him are Ludwig Reichenbach (1793), Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823), Ernst Schäfer (1910), Princess Therese of Bavaria (1850), Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805), and August Batsch (1761).

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