BIOLOGIST

Alexander Kovalevsky

1840 - 1901

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Alexander Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ону́фриевич Ковале́вский; 7 November 1840 – 1901) was a Russian embryologist, who studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and became professor at the University of St Petersburg. He was the brother of the paleontologist Vladimir Kovalevsky, and the brother-in-law of the mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Kovalevsky is the 462nd most popular biologist (up from 473rd in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 88th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Latvian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alexander Kovalevsky ranks 462 out of 1,097. Before him are Henrik Steffens, Antoine de Jussieu, Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, Francis Darwin, Anna Russell, and Peter Artedi. After him are Luther Burbank, Marie Stopes, Alain Bombard, William T. Stearn, Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, and Richard Lydekker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Alexander Kovalevsky ranks 45. Before him are August Leskien, José Manuel Balmaceda, Marie Bracquemond, Charles Booth, Akaki Tsereteli, and Édouard André. After him are Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Gabriel von Max, Dmitry Pisarev, Abraham Goldfaden, Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, and Edmond Audran. Among people deceased in 1901, Alexander Kovalevsky ranks 44. Before him are Oreste Baratieri, Princess Januária of Brazil, Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria, Auguste Serrurier, Dagny Juel, and Johannes Schmidt. After him are Henri Helle, Arvid Posse, Peter Benoit, Jules Barbier, Shah Jahan Begum of Bhopal, and Francesc Pi i Margall.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Alexander Kovalevsky ranks 76 out of 323. Before him are Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824), Mstislav Keldysh (1911), Valdis Dombrovskis (1971), Morris Halle (1923), Vilis Lācis (1904), and Edgars Rinkēvičs (1973). After him are Vasiliy Ulrikh (1889), Ivars Godmanis (1951), Jānis K. Bērziņš (1889), Alexander von Keyserling (1815), Vizma Belševica (1931), and Lūcija Garūta (1902).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Latvia

Among biologists born in Latvia, Alexander Kovalevsky ranks 2. Before him are Karl Eichwald (1795). After him are Georg August Schweinfurth (1836), Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809), Heinz Christian Pander (1794), and Johann Gerhard König (1728).

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