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Adriana Hoffmann

1940 - 2022

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Adriana Elisabeth Hoffmann Jacoby (29 January 1940 – 20 March 2022) was a Chilean botanist, environmentalist and author. She was executive secretary of Chile's National Environment Commission (Spanish: Comisión Nacional del Medio Ambiente, CONAMA) from 2000 to 2001. She advocated for the sustainable management and protection of Chilean forests, leading opposition to illegal logging in her role as coordinator of Defensores del Bosque Chileno (Defenders of the Chilean Forest) since 1992. Hoffmann authored over a dozen books on the flora of Chile, as well as 106 botanical names, mostly realignments of species and infraspecific taxa of cactus. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adriana Hoffmann is the 866th most popular biologist (up from 986th in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from Chile (up from 181st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Chilean Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Adriana Hoffmann ranks 866 out of 1,097. Before her are Jules Verreaux, Paul R. Ehrlich, Tadas Ivanauskas, Karel Domin, David Ho, and Thomas Campbell Eyton. After her are Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller, Filippo Parlatore, Édouard Ménétries, Birbal Sahni, Wilfred Hudson Osgood, and Hermann Harms.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Adriana Hoffmann ranks 391. Before her are Ole Lund Kirkegaard, Eugen Drewermann, John Esposito, Fausto Bertinotti, Franco Bitossi, and Silva Batuta. After her are Zoran Janković, Jacques Higelin, Vladimir Korenev, Aracy Balabanian, Jürgen Heinsch, and Eladio Silvestre. Among people deceased in 2022, Adriana Hoffmann ranks 400. Before her are Tony Nash, Piero Angela, Rafael Chimishkyan, Carlos Lucas, Andreas Kunz, and Ajdar Ismailov. After her are Carmen Herrera, Omar Borrás, Kjell Espmark, Jürgen Heinsch, Jens Jørgen Hansen, and Roger E. Mosley.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, Adriana Hoffmann ranks 114 out of 321. Before her are Hugo Villanueva (1939), Roberto Rojas (1957), Guillermo Saavedra (1903), Fernando Roldán (1921), Raúl Silva Henríquez (1907), and Carlos Lucas (1930). After her are Gonzalo Rojas (1917), Atilio Cremaschi (1923), Roberto Cortés (1905), George Robledo (1926), Adelina Gutiérrez (1925), and Cote de Pablo (1979).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Chile

Among biologists born in Chile, Adriana Hoffmann ranks 5. Before her are Hugo Gunckel Lüer (1901), Francisco Varela (1946), Humberto Maturana (1928), and Juan Ignacio Molina (1740).

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