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Adolf Mayer

1843 - 1942

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Adolf Eduard Mayer (9 August 1843 – 25 December 1942) was a German agricultural biologist whose work on tobacco mosaic disease played an important role in the discovery of tobacco mosaic virus and viruses in general. Mayer was born in 1843 into the family of a high school teacher in Oldenburg. His mother was a daughter of renowned German chemist Leopold Gmelin. From 1860 to 1862 he studied biology, geology and chemistry at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Mayer is the 419th most popular biologist (up from 503rd in 2019), the 2,727th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,627th in 2019) and the 81st most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Adolf Mayer ranks 419 out of 1,097. Before him are Arthur Tansley, John Needham, Alexander Braun, Heinrich Boie, George Albert Boulenger, and Carl Hagenbeck. After him are Martha Chase, James P. Allison, Joseph Gaertner, Göran Wahlenberg, Blasius Merrem, and Pieter Bleeker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Adolf Mayer ranks 49. Before him are Kitty Lange Kielland, Sara Forbes Bonetta, Elizabeth Stride, Pedro Américo, Otto Kuntze, and Bernhard Förster. After him are Johannes Schmidt, Christina Nilsson, Friedrich Robert Helmert, Fyodor Stravinsky, Karl Michael Ziehrer, and David Gill. Among people deceased in 1942, Adolf Mayer ranks 96. Before him are Walter Sickert, Cesare Mori, István Horthy, Konstantin Balmont, Atsushi Nakajima, and Gorazd. After him are Emanuel Feuermann, Adolf Hühnlein, Olha Kobylianska, Epitácio Pessoa, Thomas Xenakis, and Carola Neher.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Mayer ranks 2,728 out of 7,253. Before him are Walter Heitz (1878), Georg Hilmar (1876), Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663), Gustav Hartlaub (1814), Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1662), and Kurt Schmitt (1886). After him are Helmut Gröttrup (1916), Bernhard Windscheid (1817), Andreas Möller (1967), Siegfried von Feuchtwangen (1300), Johannes Werner (1468), and Rudolf Peierls (1907).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Adolf Mayer ranks 81. Before him are Karl Koch (1809), Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831), Georg August Goldfuss (1782), Alexander Braun (1805), Heinrich Boie (1794), and Carl Hagenbeck (1844). After him are Joseph Gaertner (1732), Blasius Merrem (1761), Wilhelm Roux (1850), Oscar Hertwig (1849), Franz von Paula Schrank (1747), and Ernst Hartert (1859).

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