The Most Famous
BIOLOGISTS from Peru
This page contains a list of the greatest Peruvian Biologists. The pantheon dataset contains 1,097 Biologists, 1 of which were born in Peru. This makes Peru the birth place of the 48th most number of Biologists behind Slovenia, and Serbia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Peruvian Biologists of all time. This list of famous Peruvian Biologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Juliane Koepcke (b. 1954)
With an HPI of 63.84, Juliane Koepcke is the most famous Peruvian Biologist. Her biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.
Juliane Margaret Beate Koepcke (born 10 October 1954), is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats. She is the daughter of German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke and sole survivor of the 1971 LANSA Flight 508 crash. When the plane was struck by lightning, she fell 3,000 m (10,000 ft) while strapped to her seat and suffered numerous injuries including a concussion, broken collarbone, and a torn knee ligament. She survived 11 days alone in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest until she located a lumberjack camp.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Peruvian biologists born between 1954 and 1954. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Peruvian biologists include Juliane Koepcke. As of April 2024, 1 new Peruvian biologists have been added to Pantheon including Juliane Koepcke.
