BIOLOGIST

Walther Flemming

1843 - 1905

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Walther Flemming (21 April 1843 – 4 August 1905) was a German biologist and a founder of cytogenetics. He was born in Sachsenberg (now part of Schwerin) as the fifth child and only son of the psychiatrist Carl Friedrich Flemming (1799–1880) and his second wife, Auguste Winter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walther Flemming has received more than 227,978 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Walther Flemming is the 147th most popular biologist (down from 135th in 2019), the 1,115th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,130th in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Biologist.

Walther Flemming is most famous for his discovery of the cell nucleus.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Walther Flemming ranks 147 out of 1,097. Before him are Mario Capecchi, William Carey, J. Michael Bishop, William Bateson, Emmanuelle Charpentier, and Jan Svatopluk Presl. After him are Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Julius Richard Petri, Adolf Engler, and Martin Evans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Walther Flemming ranks 20. Before him are Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia, Richard Avenarius, Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Benito Pérez Galdós, and Oscar Montelius. After him are Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, Georg von Hertling, Henryk Siemiradzki, Teófilo Braga, Hermann Schwarz, and Camillo Sitte. Among people deceased in 1905, Walther Flemming ranks 17. Before him are Adolph Menzel, Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, Carl Wernicke, Albert Edelfelt, Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, and Élisée Reclus. After him are Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Alois Riegl, Constantin Meunier, Oswald Achenbach, Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria, and Alphonse Allais.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walther Flemming ranks 1,115 out of 7,253. Before him are Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse (1777), Prince Henry of Prussia (1862), Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810), Lale Andersen (1905), Gerhard Herzberg (1904), and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912). After him are Killing of Peter Fechter (1944), Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria (1831), Ernst Hanfstaengl (1887), Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (1594), Friedrich Sertürner (1783), and Gustav Noske (1868).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Walther Flemming ranks 20. Before him are Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942), Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), August Grisebach (1814), Erwin Neher (1944), and Bert Sakmann (1942). After him are Julius Richard Petri (1852), Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), Theodor Escherich (1857), Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709), and Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765).

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