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Alphonse Milne-Edwards

1835 - 1900

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Alphonse Milne-Edwards (Paris, 13 October 1835 – Paris, 21 April 1900) was a French mammalogist, ornithologist, and carcinologist. He was English in origin, the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of Bryan Edwards, a Jamaican planter who settled at Bruges (then in France). Milne-Edwards obtained a medical degree in 1859 and became assistant to his father at the Jardin des Plantes in 1876. He became the director of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1891, devoting himself especially to fossil birds and deep-sea exploration. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alphonse Milne-Edwards is the 504th most popular biologist (up from 639th in 2019), the 3,190th most popular biography from France (up from 4,089th in 2019) and the 65th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alphonse Milne-Edwards ranks 504 out of 1,097. Before him are Salomon Müller, Guillaume Rondelet, Johann Hedwig, Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Achille Richard, and William Hudson. After him are Dmitry Belyayev, Pehr Kalm, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, Christian von Steven, Robert H. MacArthur, and Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Alphonse Milne-Edwards ranks 48. Before him are Matthías Jochumsson, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, Christian Otto Mohr, Auguste Kerckhoffs, John Hughlings Jackson, and Raffi. After him are Adlai Stevenson I, Henri Brisson, Franz Defregger, Grigory Potanin, Lunalilo, and Raphael Kalinowski. Among people deceased in 1900, Alphonse Milne-Edwards ranks 56. Before him are Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Bruno Abakanowicz, Frederic Edwin Church, Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, and Wilhelm Kühne. After him are Fatima Sheikh, Leonardo Murialdo, Piet Joubert, Sergei Korsakoff, Francišak Bahuševič, and Alexandre Falguière.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alphonse Milne-Edwards ranks 3,190 out of 6,770. Before him are Didier Auriol (1958), Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases (1766), Anne Vernon (1924), Pierre Brasseur (1905), Annabella (1907), and Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (1828). After him are Olivier Martinez (1966), Bertha of Kent (550), Jacques Pills (1906), Jean Richepin (1849), Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746), and Pierre Daniel Huet (1630).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Alphonse Milne-Edwards ranks 65. Before him are Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776), Lucien Quélet (1832), Gabriel Bibron (1805), Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794), Guillaume Rondelet (1507), and Achille Richard (1794). After him are Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746), François Marie Daudin (1776), Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (1770), Charles Chamberland (1851), Sébastien Vaillant (1669), and Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778).

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