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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 129,820 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Wilhelm Johannsen is the 146th most popular biologist (down from 116th in 2019), the 126th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 122nd in 2019) and the 2nd 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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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilhelm Johannsen ranks 146 out of 841. Before him are Nettie Stevens, Salvador Luria, Georg Forster, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Charles Bonnet, and Gerald Edelman. After him are Daniel Nathans, Robert Whittaker, Desmond Morris, Charles Scott Sherrington, Susumu Tonegawa, and Theodor Escherich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Wilhelm Johannsen ranks 40. Before him are Vladimir Bekhterev, Edward Emerson Barnard, Eugène Atget, Max Klinger, 12th Dalai Lama, and Georges Gilles de la Tourette. After him are Theodor Escherich, Cécile Chaminade, Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden, Theodor Kittelsen, Ida Tarbell, and Mikhail Alekseyev. Among people deceased in 1927, Wilhelm Johannsen ranks 25. Before him are Paul Sérusier, Adolph Joffe, Armand Guillaumin, Vladimir Bekhterev, Eugène Atget, and Yusef of Morocco. After him are Max Hoffmann, Enrique Simonet, Shote Galica, Li Dazhao, James Oliver Curwood, and Michael Ancher.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Wilhelm Johannsen ranks 126 out of 893. Before him are Haakon III of Norway (1182), Martin Andersen Nexø (1869), Sveinn Björnsson (1881), Erik Bruhn (1928), Louis Hjelmslev (1899), and Guthrum (830). After him are Tove Ditlevsen (1917), Princess Charlotte of Denmark (1789), Anna Ancher (1859), Lars Ulrich (1963), Jussi Adler-Olsen (1950), and Brigitte Nielsen (1963).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Denmark

Among biologists born in Denmark, Wilhelm Johannsen ranks 2. Before him are Hans Christian Gram (1853). After him are Johan Christian Fabricius (1745), Erik Pontoppidan (1698), Christen C. Raunkiær (1860), Eugenius Warming (1841), Emil Christian Hansen (1842), Otto Friedrich Müller (1730), Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737), Johan Lange (1818), Johannes Schmidt (1877), and Nathaniel Wallich (1786).

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