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Aaron Aaronsohn

1876 - 1919

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Aaron Aaronsohn (Hebrew: אהרון אהרנסון) (21 May 1876 – 15 May 1919) was a Romanian-born Ottoman agronomist, botanist, and political activist, who lived most of his life in Ottoman Syria. Aaronsohn was the discoverer of emmer (Triticum dicoccoides), believed to be "the mother of wheat." He founded and was head of the NILI espionage network. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aaron Aaronsohn is the 514th most popular biologist (down from 504th in 2019), the 227th most popular biography from Romania (up from 261st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Romanian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Aaron Aaronsohn ranks 514 out of 1,097. Before him are Christian von Steven, Robert H. MacArthur, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Johann Jakob Heckel, and Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer. After him are Alec Jeffreys, Louisa Bolus, François Marie Daudin, Johan Andreas Murray, Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, and Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Aaron Aaronsohn ranks 105. Before him are Walter Tewksbury, William Sealy Gosset, Alexandre Tuffère, Yusuf Akçura, Óscar R. Benavides, and Mack Swain. After him are Oscar Dessomville, Pantelis Karasevdas, Ahmad Qavam, Konstantinos Demertzis, Maria Ouspenskaya, and Léon-Paul Fargue. Among people deceased in 1919, Aaron Aaronsohn ranks 93. Before him are Francisco Moreno, Maryana Marrash, Max Heindel, Victor Segalen, Julia Lermontova, and Vasily Rozanov. After him are Edward Poynter, Richard Bergh, Akashi Motojiro, Franz Nissl, Evgraf Fedorov, and Frederick DuCane Godman.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Aaron Aaronsohn ranks 227 out of 844. Before him are Ion Ghica (1816), Ștefan Barbu (1908), Ferenc Dávid (1510), Kadriye Nurmambet (1933), Miodrag Belodedici (1964), and Radu Vasile (1942). After him are Michael von Melas (1729), Kálmán Tisza (1830), Constantin Constantinescu-Claps (1884), Alexander Vencel (1944), Brunó Ferenc Straub (1914), and John Houseman (1902).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Romania

Among biologists born in Romania, Aaron Aaronsohn ranks 3. Before him are Ana Aslan (1897), and Johann Hedwig (1730). After him are Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás (1877), Emil Racoviță (1868), and Grigore Antipa (1867).

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