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Antoine-Augustin Parmentier

1737 - 1813

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Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (UK: , US: ; French: [ɑ̃twan oɡystɛ̃ paʁmɑ̃tje]; 12 August 1737 – 13 December 1813) was a French pharmacist and agronomist, best remembered as a vocal promoter of the potato as a food source for humans in France and throughout Europe. His many other contributions to nutrition and health included establishing the first mandatory smallpox vaccination campaign in France (under Napoleon beginning in 1805, when he was Inspector-General of the Health Service) and pioneering the extraction of sugar from sugar beets. Parmentier also founded a school of breadmaking and studied methods of conserving food, including refrigeration. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine-Augustin Parmentier is the 179th most popular biologist (down from 131st in 2019), the 1,270th most popular biography from France (down from 1,188th in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Biologist.

Antoine-Augustin Parmentier is most famous for his contribution to the French Revolution. He was a military pharmacist and is credited with saving the lives of many French citizens during the siege of Paris in 1792.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier ranks 179 out of 1,097. Before him are Norman Borlaug, Adolf Engler, George Robert Gray, Dmitri Ivanovsky, Alexander Agassiz, and Adam Afzelius. After him are Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Carl Woese, Giovanni Sartori, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Charles Bonnet, and Paul Greengard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1737, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier ranks 8. Before him are Edward Gibbon, Thomas Paine, Johann Friedrich Struensee, Michael Haydn, Josef Mysliveček, and Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. After him are Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, Louise of France, Tokugawa Ieharu, and Morten Thrane Brünnich. Among people deceased in 1813, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier ranks 14. Before him are Robert R. Livingston, Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Christoph Martin Wieland, Jean-Andoche Junot, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, and Gerhard von Scharnhorst. After him are Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Johann Baptist Wanhal, Tecumseh, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, and Anton Graff.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier ranks 1,270 out of 6,770. Before him are Joël Robuchon (1945), Jules Ferry (1832), Odile of Alsace (662), Baldwin V, Count of Flanders (1012), Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838), and Dominique Sanda (1948). After him are Max Linder (1883), Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736), Tancred of Hauteville (980), René Arnoux (1948), Walter Sans Avoir (1050), and Jane Frances de Chantal (1572).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier ranks 25. Before him are Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), Aimé Bonpland (1773), Félix d'Herelle (1873), Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), and Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723). After him are Armand David (1826), Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), Michel Adanson (1727), Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784), and Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777).

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