BIOLOGIST

André Thouin

1746 - 1824

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André Thouin (10 February 1747 – 24 October 1824) was a French botanist. Thouin studied botany under Bernard de Jussieu, and in 1793 attained the chair of horticulture at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. He was a good friend of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, and the godfather of Jean Baptiste Lamarck's son Andre. He is remembered for contributions made in the field of agronomy, including scientific studies that involved improved grafting techniques and seed selection. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. André Thouin is the 817th most popular biologist (down from 715th in 2019), the 4,341st most popular biography from France (up from 4,363rd in 2019) and the 114th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, André Thouin ranks 817 out of 1,097. Before him are William Thomas Blanford, João Barbosa Rodrigues, Herbert Giles, Mary-Claire King, Nicolaus Michael Oppel, and Heinrich Göppert. After him are Charlotte Auerbach, Gustav Lindau, Robert Trivers, John Abbot, Albrecht Thaer, and Akira Miyawaki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, André Thouin ranks 33. Before him are Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, Jean-Sifrein Maury, William Curtis, Joachim Heinrich Campe, Bernardo de Gálvez, and Charles Cameron. After him are Louise du Pierry, James Wyatt, Peter Jacob Hjelm, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Henry Grattan, and Begum Samru. Among people deceased in 1824, André Thouin ranks 34. Before him are Blasius Merrem, Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Agustín de Betancourt, Fyodor Alekseyev, and Hans Nielsen Hauge. After him are Lachlan Macquarie, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, François Levaillant, Jonathan Dayton, Mah Laqa Bai, and Jane Taylor.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Thouin ranks 4,341 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Omidyar (1967), Gaston Waringhien (1901), Valérie Kaprisky (1962), Jacques Sautereau (1860), Victor Louis (1731), and Petit (1976). After him are Oscar Heisserer (1914), Saïd Taghmaoui (1973), Anémone (1950), Jacques Noël (1920), Charles Rigoulot (1903), and Yves Dreyfus (1931).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, André Thouin ranks 114. Before him are Bernard Heuvelmans (1916), Michel Félix Dunal (1789), Émile Blanchard (1819), Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville (1799), Jules Pierre Rambur (1801), and Aimée Antoinette Camus (1879). After him are Alfred Moquin-Tandon (1804), René Dubos (1901), Jean-Pierre Changeux (1936), Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (1808), Jules Verreaux (1807), and Édouard Ménétries (1802).

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