BIOLOGIST

Wilhelm Roux

1850 - 1924

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Wilhelm Roux (9 June 1850 – 15 September 1924) was a German zoologist and pioneer of experimental embryology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Roux has received more than 68,975 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Roux is the 458th most popular biologist (down from 373rd in 2019), the 3,399th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,892nd in 2019) and the 95th most popular German Biologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilhelm Roux ranks 458 out of 1,097. Before him are Francisco J. Ayala, Gabriel Bibron, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, Eugene Odum, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, and Kaspar Maria von Sternberg. After him are Carl Meissner, June Almeida, Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper, André Marie Constant Duméril, Johann Bauhin, and Robert Sapolsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Wilhelm Roux ranks 63. Before him are José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Alfred Pringsheim, Xaver Scharwenka, Victoria Benedictsson, Edward Bellamy, and Alphonse Pénaud. After him are Ernest von Koerber, Andrea Carlo Ferrari, Tarabai Shinde, Bharatendu Harishchandra, Anastasia Golovina, and Amélie Lundahl. Among people deceased in 1924, Wilhelm Roux ranks 75. Before him are Emma Eckstein, Jacob Israël de Haan, Pavel Urysohn, Xaver Scharwenka, Charles Villiers Stanford, and Klara Zamenhof. After him are Curt von Bardeleben, Kuroda Seiki, E. D. Morel, Jacques Loeb, Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg, and Jiří Wolker.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Roux ranks 3,399 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Frederick of Württemberg (1808), Klaus Wowereit (1953), Robert Volkmann (1815), Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz (1691), Jan Ullrich (1973), and Gabriel Biel (1418). After him are Werner Voss (1897), Erich Weinert (1890), Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), Rüdiger Safranski (1945), Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1633), and Pavle Jurišić Šturm (1848).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Wilhelm Roux ranks 95. Before him are Alwin Berger (1871), Heinrich Boie (1794), Heinrich Schrader (1767), Friedrich Boie (1789), Heinrich Kuhl (1797), and Georg August Goldfuss (1782). After him are Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper (1742), Joseph Gaertner (1732), Carl Ludwig Koch (1778), Jacques Loeb (1859), Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809), and Karl Gegenbaur (1826).

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