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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 116,267 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Theodor Boveri is the 306th most popular biologist (up from 336th in 2019), the 2,479th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,481st in 2019) and the 52nd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Theodor Boveri ranks 306 out of 841. Before him are Lev Berg, Motoo Kimura, Carl Nägeli, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Karl Möbius, and James Rothman. After him are Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, Lorenz Oken, Charles Plumier, Eric F. Wieschaus, Richard Henderson, and George Robert Gray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Theodor Boveri ranks 65. Before him are Paul Adam, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Louis Botha, Sergei Nilus, Léon Boëllmann, and Hjalmar Hammarskjöld. After him are Wil van Gogh, Okakura Kakuzō, William Wallace Campbell, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Abram Arkhipov, and Henri Le Sidaner. Among people deceased in 1915, Theodor Boveri ranks 47. Before him are Akaki Tsereteli, Hans Gross, Inoue Kaoru, Otto Weddigen, Nagakura Shinpachi, and Karl Lamprecht. After him are Joe Hill, Józef Brandt, Mubarak Al-Sabah, Béla Kiss, Adolphe Pégoud, and Carlos Finlay.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Theodor Boveri ranks 2,479 out of 6,142. Before him are Max Skladanowsky (1863), Marie of Baden-Sponheim (1507), Franz von Sickingen (1481), Princess Marie of Prussia (1855), Rolf Stommelen (1943), and Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1827). After him are Frederick Charles, Duke of Württemberg-Winnental (1652), Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881), Erich Hückel (1896), Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt (1856), Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1848), and Duchess Marie of Württemberg (1799).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Theodor Boveri ranks 52. Before him are Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802), Wilhelm Peters (1815), Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797), Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787), and Karl Möbius (1825). After him are Lorenz Oken (1779), Albert Günther (1830), Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1811), Ernst Schäfer (1910), Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), and Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725).

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