BIOLOGIST

Wilhelm Johannsen

1857 - 1927

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Wilhelm Johannsen (3 February 1857 – 11 November 1927) was a Danish pharmacist, botanist, plant physiologist, and geneticist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Johannsen has received more than 136,617 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Wilhelm Johannsen is the 175th most popular biologist (down from 145th in 2019), the 139th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 125th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Danish Biologist.

Wilhelm Johannsen is most famous for his discovery of the distinction between genotype and phenotype. He also coined the term gene.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilhelm Johannsen ranks 175 out of 1,097. Before him are Erik Acharius, César Milstein, Paul Greengard, John Boyd Orr, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, and Ana Aslan. After him are George Wald, Giuseppe Acerbi, Jakob von Uexküll, Theodor Escherich, Anna Atkins, and George Robert Gray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Wilhelm Johannsen ranks 41. Before him are Max Klinger, Georges Gilles de la Tourette, 12th Dalai Lama, Antoni Grabowski, Ida Tarbell, and Cécile Chaminade. After him are Eugène Atget, Theodor Escherich, Vladimir Bekhterev, Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden, Mikhail Alekseyev, and Émile Coué. Among people deceased in 1927, Wilhelm Johannsen ranks 29. Before him are Li Dazhao, Adolph Joffe, Enrique Simonet, Saad Zaghloul, Michael Ancher, and Louise Abbéma. After him are Eugène Atget, Vladimir Bekhterev, Vilhelm Thomsen, Sisowath of Cambodia, James Oliver Curwood, and Shote Galica.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Wilhelm Johannsen ranks 139 out of 1,032. Before him are Johan Christian Fabricius (1745), Gudfred (800), Lars Ulrich (1963), Charles I, Count of Flanders (1083), Magnus II of Sweden (1130), and Gabriel Axel (1918). After him are John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852), Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776), Princess Charlotte of Denmark (1789), Otto Jespersen (1860), Jesper Christensen (1948), and Magnus, Duke of Holstein (1540).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Denmark

Among biologists born in Denmark, Wilhelm Johannsen ranks 3. Before him are Hans Christian Gram (1853), and Johan Christian Fabricius (1745). After him are Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737), Erik Pontoppidan (1698), Christen C. Raunkiær (1860), Otto Friedrich Müller (1730), Eugenius Warming (1841), Emil Christian Hansen (1842), Japetus Steenstrup (1813), Nathaniel Wallich (1786), and Johannes Schmidt (1877).

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